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West Bend Exhibition

Sherrie Levine

After Russell Lee: 1-60

Past Exhibition

February 5–July 27

MOWA | West Bend

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About Art Bridges

MOWA begins an ongoing partnership with Art Bridges, a foundation established by Alice Walton in conjunction with the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR. In an effort to expand access to American art, Art Bridges provides loans from its growing permanent collection to participating institutions, along with financial support for initiatives that connect local audiences and communities.

February 5–July 29

MOWA | West Bend

MOWA’s first loan will be Sherrie Levine, After Russell Lee: 1-60, 2016.

In February, MOWA begins an ongoing partnership with Art Bridges, a foundation established by Alice Walton in association with the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. In an effort to expand access to American art, Art Bridges provides loans from its collection to participating institutions, along with financial support for initiatives that connect local audiences and communities. MOWA’s first loan—a 60-piece photography installation by Sherrie Levine (b. 1947)—will be on view along with a selection of photographic works from MOWA’s collection.

After eight formative years at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Levine’s rise to prominence began when she was included in a groundbreaking exhibition in NYC in 1977 which ushered in the “Pictures” generation: artists appropriating mass media images with varying degrees of humor and skepticism. Levine is best known for re-photographing photographs made by male icons like Edward Weston and Walker Evans, placing a feminist spin on traditional patriarchal authority. In her work After Russell Lee: 1-60, Levine re-photographed images taken by Lee in 1940 of Pie Town, New Mexico when he was a Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographer. Pie Town was touted as a government “success story,” full of pioneering, hardworking, and productive people relocated from hard hit areas of the Dust Bowl.