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Installation view, Sherrie Levine, Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 W 21st Street, New York. March 29 - April 26, 2003. © Sherrie Levine. Photo: D. James Dee.

Installation view, Sherrie Levine, Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 W 21st Street, New York. March 29 - April 26, 2003. © Sherrie Levine. Photo: D. James Dee.

Installation view, Sherrie Levine, Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 W 21st Street, New York. March 29 - April 26, 2003. © Sherrie Levine. Photo: D. James Dee.

Installation view, Sherrie Levine, Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 W 21st Street, New York. March 29 - April 26, 2003. © Sherrie Levine. Photo: D. James Dee.

Installation view, New Work, Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 W 21st Street, New York. March 21 - April 19, 2003. © Zoe Leonard. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Tom Powel.

Installation view, New Work, Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 W 21st Street, New York. March 21 - April 19, 2003. © Zoe Leonard. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Tom Powel. 

Installation view, Sherrie Levine, Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 W 21st Street, New York. March 29 - April 26, 2003. © Sherrie Levine. Photo: D. James Dee.

Installation view, Sherrie Levine, Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 W 21st Street, New York. March 29 - April 26, 2003. © Sherrie Levine. Photo: D. James Dee.

Installation view, Sherrie Levine, Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 W 21st Street, New York. March 29 - April 26, 2003. © Sherrie Levine. Photo: D. James Dee.

Installation view, Sherrie Levine, Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 W 21st Street, New York. March 29 - April 26, 2003. © Sherrie Levine. Photo: D. James Dee.

Installation view, New Work, Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 W 21st Street, New York. March 21 - April 19, 2003. © Zoe Leonard. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Tom Powel.

Installation view, New Work, Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 W 21st Street, New York. March 21 - April 19, 2003. © Zoe Leonard. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Tom Powel. 

NEW YORK—New work by Sherrie Levine will be on view in a one-person exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery, from 29 March through 26 April, 2003. The show will consist of cast bronze and glass sculpture and a series of paintings on plywood.

In the front gallery, Sherrie Levine will exhibit a series of six identical bronze steer skulls. Levine has spent much of the past six years in the American Southwest and this new series makes reference to her experience there, citing in particular Georgia O’Keefe’s paintings of bleached animal bones in the desert.

Levine will also present a new series of Knot Paintings, which are bare pieces of plywood with paint applied on the knots and framed behind glass. Levine began her first series of Knot Paintings in 1984 and has continued exploring this format over the years. The paintings in this exhibition extend the reference to O’Keefe, alluding to the eroticism of her work.

Finally, Levine returns to the paired structure (a format she has favored, both in painting and sculpture), showing gnome sculpture pairs based on Gartenzwerge, in cast bronze and glass. Entitled Avant-Garde and Kitsch and Repetition and Difference the sculptures are wry homages to seminal texts by art theorist Clement Greenberg and philosopher Gilles Deleuze, respectively.

At the conclusion of Difference and Repetition, Deleuze writes:

"Repetition—even in its most mechanical, quotidian, habitual, stereotypical forms—has a place within art… For the only esthetic problem is how to insert art into everyday life. The more our daily life appears standardized, stereotyped, submitted to the accelerated reproduction of consumer goods, the more art must become part of life and rescue from it that small difference which operates between levels of repetition, making habitual consumption reverberate with destruction and death; linking cruelty to inanity; discovering, beneath consumption, the chattering of the schizophrenic; and reproducing esthetically, beneath the most ignoble destructions of war (which are still processes of consumption), the illusions and mystifications which are the real essence of this civilization–so that, in the end, Difference can express itself… even if it’s only in the form of a contradiction here or there, thereby liberating the forces needed to destroy this world."

Sherrie Levine lives and works in New York and Santa Fe. Her work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at venues such as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Kunsthalle Zürich, the Rooseum Malmö, Sweden, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Menil Collection, Houston, and the MAMCO Geneva, Switzerland. This is her fourth exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery. Levine will also present new work at Jablonka Galerie in Cologne, opening on April 24.

For more information, please contact the gallery: (212) 255-1105 or info@paulacoopergallery.com

Selected Works

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Sherrie Levine "Parchment Knot: 1" 2003 Acrylic paint on plywood 96 x 48 in.

Sherrie Levine
"Parchment Knot: 1" 2003
Acrylic paint on plywood
96 x 48 in. 

Sherrie Levine "Pink Knot: 2" 2003 Acrylic paint on plywood 96 x 48 in.

Sherrie Levine
"Pink Knot: 2" 2003
Acrylic paint on plywood
96 x 48 in. 

Sherrie Levine "Pink Knot: 1" 2003 Acrylic paint on plywood 96 x 48 in.

Sherrie Levine
"Pink Knot: 1" 2003
Acrylic paint on plywood
96 x 48 in. 

Sherrie Levine "Steer Skull, Horned" 2002 Cast bronze 14 x 19 x 20 in.

Sherrie Levine
"Steer Skull, Horned" 2002
Cast bronze
14 x 19 x 20 in. 

Sherrie Levine "Avant Garde and Kitsch" 2002 Cast crystal and cast bronze bronze: 7 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 2 3/8 in crystal: 7 x 2 7/8 x 1 3/4 in.

Sherrie Levine
"Avant Garde and Kitsch" 2002
Cast crystal and cast bronze
bronze: 7 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 2 3/8 in
crystal: 7 x 2 7/8 x 1 3/4 in.

Sherrie Levine "Repetition and Difference" 2002 Cast bronze and cast black glass bronze: 6 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. black glass: 6 3/4 x 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.

Sherrie Levine
"Repetition and Difference" 2002
Cast bronze and cast black glass
bronze: 6 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.
black glass: 6 3/4 x 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. 

Sherrie Levine "Parchment Knot: 1" 2003 Acrylic paint on plywood 96 x 48 in.

Sherrie Levine
"Parchment Knot: 1" 2003
Acrylic paint on plywood
96 x 48 in. 

Sherrie Levine "Pink Knot: 2" 2003 Acrylic paint on plywood 96 x 48 in.

Sherrie Levine
"Pink Knot: 2" 2003
Acrylic paint on plywood
96 x 48 in. 

Sherrie Levine "Pink Knot: 1" 2003 Acrylic paint on plywood 96 x 48 in.

Sherrie Levine
"Pink Knot: 1" 2003
Acrylic paint on plywood
96 x 48 in. 

Sherrie Levine "Steer Skull, Horned" 2002 Cast bronze 14 x 19 x 20 in.

Sherrie Levine
"Steer Skull, Horned" 2002
Cast bronze
14 x 19 x 20 in. 

Sherrie Levine "Avant Garde and Kitsch" 2002 Cast crystal and cast bronze bronze: 7 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 2 3/8 in crystal: 7 x 2 7/8 x 1 3/4 in.

Sherrie Levine
"Avant Garde and Kitsch" 2002
Cast crystal and cast bronze
bronze: 7 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 2 3/8 in
crystal: 7 x 2 7/8 x 1 3/4 in.

Sherrie Levine "Repetition and Difference" 2002 Cast bronze and cast black glass bronze: 6 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. black glass: 6 3/4 x 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.

Sherrie Levine
"Repetition and Difference" 2002
Cast bronze and cast black glass
bronze: 6 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.
black glass: 6 3/4 x 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.