Sherrie Levine
Sherrie Levine is known for appropriating and recontextualizing famous works of art. Her photographs, drawings, paintings, and sculptures reference such artists and writers as Marcel Duchamp, Walker Evans, and Gustave Flaubert. Challenging modernist notions of originality and creative genius, Levine has stated that “the tension between the reference and the new work doesn’t really exist until the new work has an artistic presence of its own.”
Disparities and Deformations
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque brought together a diverse group of contemporary artworks that respond and give new substance to the sense of emotional and logical uncertainty inherent in the grotesque, described by the 19th-century writer Jean Paul as a state of “soul dizziness.” The exhibition tracked the incongruous combination of disparate forms and ideas in the work of internationally renowned artists of different generations, coming from various cultural contexts, and working with different processes and ideas.
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