Art Bridges

West Bend, Wi – In February, the Museum of Wisconsin Art 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.

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

A graduate of UW–Madison, Sherrie Levine’s 60-piece installation appropriates imagery from Russell Lee’s Farm Security Administration photographs taken in the 1940s.

Her rise to prominence began after she was featured in a ground-breaking exhibition in New York City in 1977 which ushered in the Pictures Generation: artists who pioneered the appropriation of mass media imagery with varying degrees of humor and cynicism.

Levine is best known for re-photographing images by male icons of photography like Edward Weston and Walker Evans, thereby questioning the sacredness of the male creator and notions of originality and authenticity.…Read more by Judy Steffes