Louise lawler

Louise Lawler (*1947) is a key figure of the Pictures Generation of appropriation art. At the heart of her body of work are photographs of other artists’ works as displayed in museums, storage spaces, auction houses, and collectors’ homes.

Artist: Louise Lawler (American, born Bronxville, New York, 1947). Date: 1984. Medium: Silver dye bleach print. Dimensions: 71.1 x 99.1cm (28 x 39in.)Frame:...

Louise Lawler is a photographer known for her portraits of other artists’ work, in which she gives special attention to all the connecting tissue that …

From The Broad Collection: Louise Lawler, Egg and Gun, 2008, Cibachrome face mounted to Plexi on museum box, The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection.

Lawler is a spy in the house of art, casting sidelong glances at modernist masterpieces as they wend their way from the pristine white cubes of galleries and the carpeted walls of auction previews to museum storerooms, corporate boardrooms, and cloistered private homes

Documentation of Louise Lawler at Sprüth Magers, London is featured on Contemporary Art Daily.

Louise Lawler, one of the key Pictures Generation artists, will be the subject of a survey at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Louise Lawler, American, born 1947 Living Room Corner Arranged by Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Sr., 1984 Dye destruction print Sheet: 18 1/4 x 23 3/4 inches (46.4 x 60.3 cm) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of Henry S. McNeil, Jr., 1988

Lawler was the subject of a one-person exhibition, WHY PICTURES NOW, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2017. Additional one-person exhibitions include Adjusted, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2013); Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (Looking Back), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2006); Louise Lawler and Andy Warhol: In and Out of Place, Dia Beacon, New York (2005); and Louise Lawler and Others, Museum for Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2004). She has been included in numerous group…

Louise Lawler, Statue before painting, Perseus with the head of Medusa by Canova (1982)