Louise Lawler at MoMA, New York
BY BLOUIN ARTINFO | MAY 09, 2017
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Louise Lawler. Why Pictures Now. 1981. Gelatin silver print, 3 x 6” (7.6 x 15.2 cm)
(Courtesy: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired with support from Nathalie and Jean-Daniel Cohen in honor of Roxana Marcoci. © 2017 Louise Lawler)
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, is hosting the first major survey in New York of American artist Louise Lawler (b. 1947, New York), on view through July 30, 2017.
The exhibition, titled 'Louise Lawler: WHY PICTURES NOW', spans the 40-year creative output of one of the most influential artists working in the fields of image production and institutional critique. Lawler’s practice offers a sly, witty, and sustained feminist analysis of the strategies that inform art’s production and reception. She became a part of ‘Pictures Generation’- a loosely knit, highly independent group of artists, who used photography and appropriation driven strategies to examine the functions and codes of representation, which led her in taking pictures of other artists’ works displayed in collectors’ homes, museums, storage spaces, and auction houses, questioning the value, meaning, and use of art. She also created a strategy of representation, reframe, and restage her own work transferred into different formats- from photographs to paperweights to tracings, known as “adjusted to fit.” The exhibition consists of a sequence of mural-scale, “adjusted to fit” images set in dynamic relation to nonlinear groupings of photographs distinctive of Lawler’s conceptual exercises, alongside black-and-white “tracings” of Lawler’s photographs printed on vinyl and mounted directly on the wall. Also on view are the artist’s ephemera dating back in the 1970s through the present, highlighting the feminist and performative undercurrents of her art, showcasing her long history of artistic collaborations with names like Andrea Fraser, Felix GonzalezTorres, Sherrie Levine, Allan McCollum and others. The works are presented along with ‘Birdcalls’ (1972–81), a sound installation.
The exhibition is on view at MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019, USA.
For details, visit, www.moma.org
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