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Sherrie Levine BIOGRAPHY
Born 1947 Hazelton, Pennsylvania. Known for: Funk biomorph, non ob-geometric.
Sherrie Levine is an American photographer and conceptual artist born April 17, 1947 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The artist lives and works in New York. She studied at the University of Wisconsin,... Read full biography
Sherrie Levine is an American photographer and conceptual artist born April 17, 1947 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The artist lives and works in New York. She studied at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, receiving her BA in 1969 and MFA in 1973. Biographical information is limited because of the... Read full biography
Sherrie Levine is an American photographer and conceptual artist born April 17, 1947 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The artist lives and works in New York. She studied at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, receiving her BA in 1969 and MFA in 1973. Biographical information is limited because of the artist's refusal to take part in what she terms the "myth-making" associated with art production. Levine first gained critical attention in the early 1980s through her association with Cindy Sherman,... Read full biography
Sherrie Levine is an American photographer and conceptual artist born April 17, 1947 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The artist lives and works in New York. She studied at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, receiving her BA in 1969 and MFA in 1973. Biographical information is limited because of the artist's refusal to take part in what she terms the "myth-making" associated with art production. Levine first gained critical attention in the early 1980s through her association with Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, David Salle and others known as "appropriationists" for drawing upon existing imagery from "high" and "low" culture. Her works have been interpreted as comments upon the death of Modernism and its ideals, notions of artistic originality,... Read full biography
Sherrie Levine is an American photographer and conceptual artist born April 17, 1947 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The artist lives and works in New York. She studied at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, receiving her BA in 1969 and MFA in 1973. Biographical information is limited because of the artist's refusal to take part in what she terms the "myth-making" associated with art production. Levine first gained critical attention in the early 1980s through her association with Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, David Salle and others known as "appropriationists" for drawing upon existing imagery from "high" and "low" culture. Her works have been interpreted as comments upon the death of Modernism and its ideals, notions of artistic originality, the authenticity and autonomy of the art object and its status as a commodity. "Untitled," after Walker Evans, 1981, is an 8 x 10 pho... Read full biography
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Sherrie Levine is an American photographer and conceptual artist born April 17, 1947 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The artist lives and works in New York. She studied at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, receiving her BA in 1969 and MFA in 1973.
Biographical information is limited because of the artist's refusal to take part in what she terms the "myth-making" associated with art production. Levine first gained critical attention in the early 1980s through her association with Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, David Salle and others known as "appropriationists" for drawing upon existing imagery from "high" and "low" culture.
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