Stephanie Syjuco is a San Francisco artist (and former Open Space columnist!). More Sherrie Levine on our website.
Remember the end of Manhattan, when Woody Allen asks himself what makes life worth living? Last January, during SFMOMA’s three day 75th anniversary celebration, 75 people from the Bay Area creative community gave extremely shor... More
When last I was in New York, the artist Fia Backström and I had a conversation about Sherrie Levine, by way of both “The Pictures Generation, 1974-84″ — an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, of the early practice of Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Sarah Charlesworth and others — and some thinking I’d done on some of Levine’s works. I planned to return to New York the following month, and we promised to re-engage our converstion then. But my plans changed. So around the date when I’d intended to be in New ... More
Until the end of June, SFMOMA has installed in their second-floor galleries a selection of several works by Sherrie Levine. Janet Bishop wrote a couple paragraphs on La Fortune (After Man Ray) (1990) earlier this month. But the works that snagged me were a curious series of collages from 1979 on the south wall.Titled Fashion Collage, each work consists of a single cutout magazine image, just a few inches tall – smaller than the image on your computer screen – isolated in a 24×18 inch white matte. Each depicts one fashion model struttin... More
[Alongside our weekly in-gallery curator "One on One" talks, we post regular ‘one on one' bits from curators, staff, and public, on a particular work or exhibition they're interested in. Follow the series here. Today's post is from curator of painting and sculpture Janet Bishop.]
On the 2nd floor right now we have a gallery devoted to the work of She... More
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