19 Facts About Louise Lawler

Louise Lawler was born on 1947 and is a US artist and photographer living in Brooklyn, New York City.

Examples of Louise Lawler's photographs include images of paintings hanging on the walls of a museum, paintings on the walls of an art collector's opulent home, artwork in the process of being installed in a gallery, and sculptures in a gallery being viewed by spectators.

Louise Lawler attended Cornell University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

In 1969, after graduating from Cornell University, Louise Lawler moved to Manhattan, where she took a job at the Castelli Gallery.

Louise Lawler has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.

Louise Lawler is less interested in the original process of creating a work of art than in the context lying beyond the artist's sphere of influence and in which the work is subsequently situated.

Louise Lawler's work is interested in the intersection of art and commerce.

In 1979, Louise Lawler presented A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture at Aero Theater in Santa Monica, California.

In 1994, Louise Lawler created Foreground, and presented it in Tate Gallery in 2009.

Louise Lawler developed her individual style during the early 1980s, a time of intense growth in the overall economy and in the art market.

In 1981 Louise Lawler had her first West Coast gallery solo exhibition at Jancar Kuhlenschmidt Gallery in Los Angeles.

In 1982, for her first solo exhibition at Metro Pictures, Louise Lawler showed a small suite of artworks pulled from the gallery's stockroom.

Further, this occurred just a few years before a significant part of their collection was auctioned at Christie's in 1988, and Louise Lawler was permitted to take photos of some of the Tremaine works at auction.

Louise Lawler created Not the way you remembered for the exhibition "Sequence One: Painting and Sculpture from the Francois Pinault Collection "; rather than contributing discrete artworks, these photographs were taken of the exhibition's early installation process in Venice, depicting works of art in their shipping crates, besides pieces of foam or bubble wrap.

Louise Lawler has had one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York ; Museum Ludwig, Cologne ; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio ; Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York ; the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel ; Portikus, Frankfurt ; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC ; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.

Louise Lawler's work has recently been featured in exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, which included her in its 1991,2000, and 2008 biennials.

Louise Lawler has regularly presented her work in non-art contexts that employ "ordinary" means of presentation, distribution and interpretation.

Louise Lawler has been represented by Metro Pictures, New York, since 1982.

Louise Lawler is represented by Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, and by Spruth Magers, Berlin.