Sherrie Levine: Wood

David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by American artist Sherrie Levine at the gallery’s 69th Street location. For this exhibition, the artist presents a never-before-seen suite of wood-panel paintings as well as a new installation of found-object sculptures. Together, the works in this presentation demonstrate Levine’s ongoing inquiry into the concepts surrounding ownership, authorship, originality, and authenticity, as well as her enduring interest in materiality. A concurrent exhibition of Levine’s work is on view at the gallery’s Paris location. 

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, directly appropriated these images in order to imbue them with new, critically inflected meaning. Since then, Levine has created a singular and complex body of work in a variety of media that often explicitly reproduces artworks and motifs from the Western art-historical canon as well as non-Western cultures.

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Image: Sherrie Levine, Fitz 1, 1994 (detail)