David Zwirner presents an exhibition of work by American artist Sherrie Levine at the gallery’s 69th Street location. For this exhibition, the artist will present a never-before-seen suite of wood-panel paintings as well as a new installation of found-object sculptures, including a Japanese burlwood kitsune fox figurine, a New Guinea ceremonial stone mortar head, and a wooden scholar figure. Together, the works in this presentation demonstrate Levine’s ongoing inquiry into concepts surrounding ownership, authorship, originality, and authenticity, as well as her enduring interest in materiality. A concurrent exhibition of Levine’s work will be on view at the gallery’s Paris location.
Levine rose to prominence as a member of the Pictures Generation, a group of artists based 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 that often explicitly reproduces artworks and motifs from the Western art-historical canon as well as non-Western cultures.
Born in 1947 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Sherrie Levine studied at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she received her MFA in 1973. Early solo exhibitions were held at 3 Mercer Street, New York (1977); Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo (1978); and The Kitchen, New York (1979). In 2015, the artist joined David Zwirner. Levine’s inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery was on view in New York the following year. Sherrie Levine: After Reinhardt, the artist’s third solo exhibition with David Zwirner, was on view in 2019 at the gallery’s 69th Street location. In 2021, Sherrie Levine: Hong Kong Dominoes was on view at David Zwirner, Hong Kong.
Levine’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at prominent institutions worldwide, including at Neues Museum, State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg (2016); Portland Art Museum, Oregon (2013); Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany (2010); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009 and 1991); and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2007)
The show runs at David Zwirner New York | 34 East 69th Street April 27th–June 17th, 2023. For further information on the show visit the gallery website
Howard Singerman, Sherrie Levine: Wood (2023).
Image: Sherrie Levine, Fitz: 1, 1994. © Sherrie Levine. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner
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