SHERRIE LEVINE
Sherrie Levine (born April 17, 1947, Hazelton, Pa., U.S.), is an American conceptual artist known for remaking famous 20th-century works of art either through photographic reproductions (termed re-photography), drawing, watercolor, or sculpture. She attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison (B.A., 1969; M.F.A., 1973) and moved to New York City in 1975.
Levine’s appropriations are conceptual gestures that question the Modernist myths of originality and authenticity. She held that the loss of authenticity in art was a result of the ubiquitous mediated signs that defined contemporary reality and that it was impossible to create anything new.