Works by Sherrie Levine at Sotheby's
Sherrie Levine Biography
Sherrie Levine challenges notions of authorship and originality by directly appropriating and recontextualizing iconic works of art and documentary photography. Levine rose to prominence as a member of the Pictures Generation, a group of artists based in New York in the late 1970s and 1980s, whose work examined the structures of signification underlying mass-circulated images—and, in many cases, borrowing these images in order to imbue them with a new, critically inflected meaning.
Born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, in 1947, Levine’s oeuvre is a rebellious intervention in Western canonical tradition. Levine is often compared to Marcel Duchamp for her alignment with a theoretical framework of artmaking that prioritized concepts through the transformation of found objects. In 2011, Levine was the subject of an acclaimed solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which included work spanning three decades. Examples of Levine’s work reside in the important institutional collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
