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Maker(s):Levine, Sherrie
Culture:American (1947- )
Title:Parchment Knot: 4
Date Made:1985/2003
Type:Painting
Materials:Acrylic on plywood
Measurements:Frame: 98.5 x 50.675 x 3.5"; Unframed: 96 x 48"
Accession Number:  AC 2019.63
Credit Line:Gift of Sam Orlofsky (Class of 1998) in honor of David E. Little, John Wieland 1958 Director and Chief Curator of Mead Art Museum
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
Sherrie Levine locates aesthetic pleasure, and aesthetic value, in unexpected places. This readymade sheet of hardware-store plywood might be imagined as part of a wall more easily than framed and hung upon one. Indeed, plywood is often used by museums to build shipping crates for holding paintings, rather than by artists for painting on. Certainly the sheet is architectural—as well as confrontational—in scale, shaped like a large doorway yet a deflective and reflective one: reminiscent of a boarded up storefront, yet in this case set behind glass. Levine has painted over each almond-shaped knot in the wood, highlighting their chance overlaps and distribution (notice the two along the sheet’s bottom edge, which pop up like a pair of bunny ears), but the abundant grain of the wood itself seems the more painterly by comparison. (Kate Nesin, 2021)

Tags:
conceptual art; woods; white; patterns; lines; flowers

Subjects:
Women artists; patterns (design elements); Conceptual art; Flowers; Forests and forestry; lines (artistic concept); White

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