Feminist artist Louise Lawler takes pictures of other artist’s works. She is a “spy” at auction previews, in museum storerooms, corporate boardrooms, private residences with her camera. Journey with me in a new-looking experience of the display of works of art after they leave the artist’s studio.
In this podcast episode, I highlight the photograph “Salon Holder” (1993). Lawler re-stages the photograph, morphing it to a paperweight, and enlarging the image to a tracery. You can see the works and a deeper insight into Lawler’s artistic process in the video “Louise Lawler: Why Pictures Now,” with curator Roxana Marcoci.
Resources for this podcast include The Wadsworth Atheneum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, and artist Sherrie Levine.