Not exact matches
Ironically (from an Owens perspective), the roster of figures Foster discusses — Cindy Sherman,
Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Gretchen Bender and, working as a team, Jenny Holzer and Peter Nadin — includes two (Sherman and Prince) who are among the most celebrated
artists of their
generation, another who recently enjoyed a retrospective at the Whitney (Levine), and a fourth whose work has long been ubiquitous in museums and public spaces (Holzer).
It was there that she found her artistic home, associating with a group of
artists — including Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, and
Sherrie Levine — who became known as «the Pictures
Generation» for their habit of appropriating images from advertising and popular media and questioning their embedded assumptions about desire and happiness.
In New York City in the 1980s, she and her cohort, including Jack Goldstein,
Sherrie Levine, and Robert Longo, formed what has been called the «Pictures
Generation,»
artists who critically appropriated images from consumer and media culture.
In New York of the late 70s and early 80s
artists like Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince and
Sherrie Levine were sometimes called the Pictures
Generation.
A critical mass of
artists emerging in the»70s whose work responded to image saturation in the media and everyday life — among them Cindy Sherman,
Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince — came to be known as the Pictures
Generation... read more
In acquiring works by Cindy Sherman, John Baldessari,
Sherrie Levine and Ericka Beckman, the museum has expanded its collection of the 1980s «Pictures
Generation»
artists.
Another Pictures
Generation artist alongside
Sherrie Levine, Barbara Kruger famously began her professional career as a designer for Mademoiselle and other magazines before defecting from the mass - media overculture to join the conceptual - art resistance.
Ms. Bloom studied at CalArts and belongs to that
generation of
artists that includes Louise Lawler, Richard Prince and
Sherrie Levine,
artists who are known for combining found imagery and text to make art that reflects on contemporary culture.
A member of the Pictures
Generation — a movement named by Douglas Crimp that collects
artists like Cindy Sherman,
Sherrie Levine, and Barbara Kruger by their witty institutional critiques via the appropriation of pop culture iconography — Louise Lawler is the subject of a newly - open retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
A little later, Doig remembers, he and his contemporaries became interested in the Pictures
Generation: a loose group of
artists who emerged in New York in the «70s — Richard Prince, Jack Goldstein and
Sherrie Levine among them — whose work was based on appropriating photographic images.
This canon includes the great exponents of contemporary printing techniques — from Andy Warhol to Christopher Wool — as well as proponents of the ready - made image, including the «Pictures
Generation»
artists such as
Sherrie Levine, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler and Richard Prince.
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Xavier Hufkens gallery in Brussels now represents
Sherrie Levine, the Pictures
Generation artist whose essential photographs, sculptures, and installations meditate on the nature of authorship in a world of images.
The
artists of the Pictures
Generation, such as Cindy Sherman,
Sherrie Levine, Laurie Simmons, Barbara Kruger, David Salle and Robert Longo, explored a new stylistic vocabulary grounded in their interest in popular culture, appropriating images from books, magazines, advertisements, television, and film.
But her being a part of the Pictures
Generation is meaningful, because that's probably what influenced me the most, being exposed to Metro Pictures and
artists like Louise Lawler,
Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo.
Part of the so - called «Pictures
Generation» Kruger's work — along with
artists Cindy Sherman,
Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince — emerged in the 70's and 80's, and questioned the origin of the image as well as the notion of
artist as creator.
Forty years ago, in 1977,
Sherrie Levine exhibited her photographic appropriations alongside other
artists of the so - called «Pictures
Generation».
Rather, it is placed in the context of works by a diverse array of
artists that includes
Sherrie Levine, Barbara Kruger, Lari Pittman, Nam June Paik, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Charles Ray, Sarah Charlesworth and Jasper Johns (some hailing from the Pictures
Generation, others definitely not), a curatorial move that embeds Koons's Neo-Dada roots within a specific set of precepts that flow forward and backward in time.
Mr. Crimp curated the «Pictures» show at
Artists Space in 1977, which featured Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein,
Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo and Philip Smith, and led to the development of the term «Pictures
Generation.»
Mullican received his BFA from CalArts in 1974, and rose to prominence as a member of the «Pictures
Generation» along with such
artists as Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, David Salle, James Welling,
Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler, Richard Prince and Robert Longo.
This happened in the 1980s with the emergence of the
generation of appropriation
artists, including, for example,
Sherrie Levine, Louise Lawler and Richard Prince.
In 2009, Kruger's postmodernist art was included in the important «Pictures
Generation» exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, along with works by other postmodernist
artists of the 1980s involved in the appropriation of images from the media, such as Sherman, Jack Goldstein (1945 - 2003), Louise Lawler (b. 1947),
Sherrie Levine (b. 1947), Robert Longo (b. 1953), Richard Prince (b. 1949) and David Salle (b. 1952).
Welling was an important figure in the «Pictures
Generation,» a loosely - knit but influential group of
artists working in New York in the 1970s and 1980s, including Barbara Kruger,
Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman; collectively they became famous for their pioneering use of photography, and contributed to the gradual integration of the medium into the mainstream of contemporary art.
Clough is associated with the Pictures
Generation, a loosely knit group of
artists that includes Longo, John Baldessari, Mike Bildo,
Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman, and many others, who, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, appropriated, manipulated, and recontextualized familiar imagery from consumer culture and art history.
A few
artists grouped under the «Pictures
Generation» category, such as
Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince, have been involved in legal disputes concerning their appropriation of content protected by intellectual property laws, particularly copyright law.
Two years before that, an exhibition titled «The Pictures
Generation, 1974 - 1984» at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art certified Sherman as the pre-eminent
artist in a cohort that includes David Salle, Robert Longo, Richard Prince and
Sherrie Levine.
Prince's standards for what and how to communicate have been so rigorous that (like
Sherrie Levine), while he has been one of the most prescient and significant
artists of his
generation, the commercial success that greeted his peers and spiritual cousins Cindy Sherman, David Salle and Jeff Koons, evaded him for nearly a decade.
She aligned closely with a group of New York - based
artists in the 1980s known as the Pictures
Generation, which included Jack Goldstein,
Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, and Laurie Simmons, among others.
Sherrie Levine came to prominence as one of a
generation of
artists who,...
Sherrie Levine is an American photographer and conceptual
artist associated with the appropriation art of the early 1980s and the
artists of «The Pictures
Generation» such as Robert Longo, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman and David Salle.
It is evident in the earliest works in the exhibition — those by Mary Kelly, Adrian Piper, and Martha Rosler — and is brought into sharp relief by the
artists of the following
generation — Judith Barry, Gretchen Bender, Dara Birnbaum, Jimmie Durham, Jenny Holzer, Silvia Kolbowski, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, William Leavitt,
Sherrie Levine, Paul McCarthy, Allan McCollum, and Haim Steinbach — who embraced expansive appropriation strategies by boldly incorporating existing images and forms into their works.