Identity Crisis: Authenticity, Attribution and Appropriation March 9, 2011

'Identity Crisis' explores issues relating to the artistic use of other artists' styles and images. This exhibition presents old master and nineteenth-century works from The Heckscher Museum Permanent Collection, providing a framework for connoisseurship issues, such as authenticity and attribution. Artists to be considered include Ralph Albert Blakelock, Canaletto, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Desire-Gustave Courbet and George Inness, among others. Contemporary appropriation artists add a new dimension to the use of adopted images, as seen in the work of such artists as Mike Bidlo, David Bierk, George Deem, Audrey Flack, Kathleen Gilje, Paul Giovanopoulos, Jane Hammond, Deborah Kass, Jiri Kolar, Sherrie Levine, Carlo Mariani, Yasumasa Morimura, Vik Muniz, Richard Pettibone, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others.