Sherrie Levine
American, born 1947
Sherrie Levine (American, born 1947). Equivalents: After Stieglitz 1–18, 2006. Set of 18 black-and-white inkjet prints, edition 6/12, 19 x 13 inches (48.3 x 33 cm) each sheet. Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Bequest of John Mortimer Schiff, by exchange and Albert H. Tracy Fund, by exchange, 2009 (P2009:3a-r). © 2006 Sherrie Levine.
Equivalents: After Stieglitz 1-18, 2006
Artwork Details
Materials
set of eighteen black-and-white inkjet prints
Edition:
6/12
Measurements
sheet: 19 in x 13 in; each (sheet): 19 x 13 inches (48.26 x 33.02 cm)
Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Credit
Bequest of John Mortimer Schiff, by exchange and Albert H. Tracy Fund, by exchange, 2009
Accession ID
P2009:3a-r
Since the late 1970s, Sherrie Levine has appropriated works by male modern masters—here, American photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s series “Equivalents,” 1922–35—as a means to comment on issues of originality, authorship, and authenticity. Stieglitz made his images of clouds to advance his argument that photography was as capable as painting of producing abstract art. Levine pushes Stieglitz’s images fully into the realm of abstraction by digitizing and pixelating the photographs almost beyond recognition, opening up the works for viewers to make their own interpretations.
Label from The Swindle: Art Between Seeing and Believing, May 26–October 28, 2018
