Living Artists of Distinction: Sherrie Levine May 12, 2007

Sherrie Levine, is considered to be one of this country's most prominent artists. Levine is noted for pieces she has been making since the early 1980s that derive from and reinterpret immediately recognizable works of earlier, well-known artists. The sculpture, paintings, and prints in the exhibition explore the issue of abstraction from the perspective of its abstract references to or abstractions from the art of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, for whom abstraction was a central concern. It also explores abstraction as a vocabulary fundamental to both the history and future of modernist expression.