15 Facts About Sherrie Levine

Sherrie Levine was born on 1947 and is an American photographer, painter, and conceptual artist.

Much of Sherrie Levine's work is explicitly appropriated from recognizable modernist artworks by artists such as Walker Evans, Edgar Degas, Marcel Duchamp, and Constantin Brancusi.

When coming under criticism with her appropriated works, most notably, Walker Evans' depression-era images, the role of appropriation within Sherrie Levine's work helped her to link the 'rarefied art object' and 'mass-produced' works to the extent that she perceived her appropriated works to be 'no less products of mass culture than the images of Elvis or Liz Taylor appropriated and reproduced by Andy Warhol.

In 1977, Sherrie Levine participated in the exhibition Pictures at Artists Space in New York, curated by Douglas Crimp.

Sherrie Levine is best known for her series of photographs, After Walker Evans, which was shown at her 1981 solo exhibition at Metro Pictures Gallery in New York.

Sherrie Levine has rephotographed a number of works by other artists, including Eliot Porter and Edward Weston.

Additional examples of Sherrie Levine's works include photographs of Van Gogh paintings from a book of his work; watercolor paintings based directly on work by Fernand Leger; pieces of plywood with their knotholes painted bright solid colors; and her 1991 sculpture Fountain, a bronze urinal modeled after Marcel Duchamp's 1917 work, Fountain.

Sherrie Levine appropriated Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even, through the creation of her 1989 series, The Bachelors.

The sculptures are displayed in individual glass vitrines, separate from one another so as to upset the structure of power depicted by Duchamp originally, allowing Sherrie Levine to make a greater social commentary through her series.

In 1993, Sherrie Levine created cast glass copies of sculptures by Constantin Brancusi, held in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, for an exhibition titled Museum Studies.

In November 2011, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York mounted a survey exhibition of Sherrie Levine's career titled Mayhem.

Sherrie Levine: Mayhem, mounted at the Whitney Museum of Art from November 2011 through January 2012, was a meticulously organized installation, ranging from Levine's best-known photographs to works including her more recent Crystal Skull series.

Sherrie Levine's art is most often associated with 1980's theoretical feminism.

Sherrie Levine has noted her distaste for the voyeuristic quality of media culture, aligning with Laura Mulvey's analysis of the male gaze.

Sherrie Levine's works is held in a number of public institutions, including:.