SHERRIE LEVINE | Untitled (Lead Checks/Lead Chevron: 10)

Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
James Kelly Contemporary, Inc., Santa Fe
Acquired from the above by the present owner in June 2007

Chicago, Donald Young Gallery, Sherrie Levine, January - February 1989 
Art Institute of Chicago, The Judith Neisser Collection: Minimal and Postminimal Innovation, February - May 2011, pp. 16 and 81, illustrated in color

James Yoon, "Sherrie Levine/Donald Young Gallery," Artforum, April 1989, p. 70, illustrated

This work is in very good condition overall. There is light evidence of wear and handling along the edges and on the surface. Under close inspection, scattered light surface abrasions, small pinpoint drip accretions and a few scattered pinpoint and unobtrusive media accretions are visible across the surface, inherent to the artist's chosen medium, and a nail-head sized area of cracking in second-from-the-bottom white chevron on the left with two pinpoint spots of loss. Also under close inspection, an Z-shaped irregularity to the paint is visible in the left of the white horizontal divider of chevrons. Under Ultraviolet inspection, the aforementioned irregularity fluoresces and appears to have benefitted from light retouching. Unframed.
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“I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by incorporating parasite meanings. Which suspends meaning while perpetually dispatching you toward interpretation, urging you beyond dogmatism, beyond doctrine, beyond ideology, beyond authority.”
Sherrie Levine