Sherrie levine artist photographer
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Sherrie Levine
American photographer and conceptual artist (born 1947)
Sherrie Levine (born 1947) is an American photographer, painter, and conceptual artist. Some of her work consists of exact photographic reproductions of the work of other photographers such as Walker Evans, Eliot Porter and Edward Weston.
Early life and education
[edit]Sherrie Levine was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania in 1947.[1] The Midwest, however, shaped her identity, as she spent most of her childhood and adolescence in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri.[2] Levine recalled her mother—who enjoyed painting—sparking her interest in art at eight years old, as she would take Levine to the St. Louis Art Museum.[3][4] Levine's mother would also take her to see art house films on a regular basis, which later influenced her work.[5] After graduating high school in 1965, she spent eight years in Wisconsin, receiving her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1969.[6] In 1973, she earned her M.F.A. from the same institution.[6] After working odd jobs in commercial art and teaching, Levine then moved to New York City in 1975 to pursue her art career.[4]
Work
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New Photography
An artist's book focusing on the question of copy (reproductions of Huysmans and Degas' works).
Sherrie Levine was born in Hazelton, Pennsylvania in 1947, and was raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She atteded the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she received a B.A. in 1969 and M.F.A. in 1973. She lived in Berkeley, California for eighteen months before moving to New York City in 1975. Since then, except for the two years she lived in Los Angeles from 1990 to 1992, she has lived and worked in New York City. She has shown widely in gallery and museum exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Japan. She has had solo museum exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum (1987), Hirschorn Museum (1988), High Museum (1988), Palais des Beaux-Arts (1990), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1991), Philadelphia Museum of Art (1993), Portikus (1994), The Menil Collection (1995), and Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (1995). In 1991 and 1992 a survey exhibition organized by the Kunsthale Zürich travelled to the Westfälisches Landesmuseum in Münster ; the Rooseum in Malmö, and the Hôtel des arts in Paris. In 1996 and 1997 an exhibition of her photography organized by the Museum d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva travelled to the FRAC des pays de la Loire
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Biography
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