{"title":"Sherrie Levine","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition ephemera, announcement cards, and printed matter relating to the work of Sherrie Levine. Objects issued in connection with exhibitions and institutional presentations of the American artist, whose practice interrogates authorship, originality, and appropriation through acts of transfer and repetition.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sherrie-levine-pie-town-david-zwirner-london-2017","title":"Sherrie Levine — Pie Town — Exhibition Announcement Card, David Zwirner, London, 2017","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition announcement card\u003cbr\u003eApprox. 21 × 14.8 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on card stock; artwork reproduction to recto, exhibition details to verso\u003cbr\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.davidzwirner.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDavid Zwirner\u003c\/a\u003e, London\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: 4 October – 18 November 2017\u003cbr\u003eCondition: very good; light handling wear and minor surface marks consistent with storage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued for a solo exhibition by Sherrie Levine at David Zwirner, London. The card reproduces a detail from \u003cem\u003eAfter Russell Lee: 1–60\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), Levine’s reworking of historic documentary photographs originally made by Russell Lee during his work for the Farm Security Administration in the 1940s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe image depicts Faro and Doris Caudill in Pie Town, New Mexico, photographed in October 1940. In Levine’s version, the original documentary image re-enters circulation as a new object: digitally translated, enlarged, and repositioned within the context of contemporary art. Rather than producing an image from nothing, Levine works through transfer, repetition, and displacement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the late 1970s Levine has repeatedly questioned the stability of authorship and originality through acts of appropriation. Existing images are not simply reused but placed under pressure. Ownership, historical authority, and artistic identity become unstable categories. The gesture is small and direct: take an image already embedded in culture and ask what changes when it appears again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin a New Rare register the invitation performs a similar operation. One image passes through multiple systems — documentary record, archive, artwork, exhibition support, printed card. Authorship remains active but temporarily unsettled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. Shipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Zwirner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53549335314770,"sku":"LEVINE-DZ-INV-2017","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Levine_Sherrie._Pie_Town_exhibition_card._David_Zwirner_London._2017_front.jpg?v=1779601142"},{"product_id":"sherrie-levine-directions-hirshhorn-museum-washington-1988","title":"Sherrie Levine — Directions — Exhibition Brochure, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., 1988","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal folded exhibition brochure \/ catalogue\u003cbr\u003eApprox. folded: 22.8 × 22.8 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on cream stock with fold-out interior panels\u003cbr\u003ePublished by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: 9 March – 30 May 1988\u003cbr\u003eCondition: good to very good; light toning, handling wear, minor corner softening and age-related surface marks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued for Sherrie Levine’s 1988 \u003cem\u003eDirections\u003c\/em\u003e exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., later travelling to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta as part of \u003cem\u003eArt at the Edge\u003c\/em\u003e. The publication includes essays by Phyllis Rosenzweig and Susan Krane alongside a checklist, bibliography, exhibition history, and reproductions of works from Levine’s then-recent \u003cem\u003eLead Checks\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGolden Knots\u003c\/em\u003e series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe brochure marks a distinct moment in Levine’s practice. During the early 1980s her name became closely associated with re-photographed images and acts of appropriation, but by the late 1980s those strategies had migrated toward painting and material itself. The reproduced \u003cem\u003eLead Checks\u003c\/em\u003e works borrow the language of modernist geometry while removing its rhetoric of originality. The \u003cem\u003eGolden Knots\u003c\/em\u003e paintings similarly elevate accidental defects in commercially available plywood into subjects of attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication records a transition rather than a conclusion. Photography becomes painting, repetition becomes material, and citation becomes object. It also captures a moment when Neo-Geo and post-appropriation discourse were actively reorganising assumptions around authorship and artistic authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin a New Rare inventory the brochure functions as a retained institutional support object — part checklist, part exhibition document, part evidence of a critical shift in Levine’s work becoming publicly fixed in print.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. 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