Sherrie Levine: Pie Town

After Russell Lee: 1-60, 2016 (detail)

David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Sherrie Levine at the gallery’s 24 Grafton Street location in London. This will be the artist’s second solo presentation with the gallery.

Levine’s work engages many of the core tenets of postmodern art, in particular challenging notions of originality, authenticity, and identity. Levine rose to prominence as a member of the Pictures Generation, a group of artists centered in New York in the late 1970s and 1980s whose work examined the structures of signification underlying mass-circulated images, and in many cases directly appropriated these images in order to imbue them with new, critically inflected meaning. Since then, Levine has created a singular and complex body of work in a variety of media (including photography, painting, and sculpture) that often explicitly reproduces artworks and motifs from the Western art historical canon.

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