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Got rich by photographing other rich people’s art collections and calling it art. Lawler weaseled her way into many an Upper West Side apartment to snap pics of works by megastars like Pollock and Koons in domestic spaces.
Her work is about money, ownership and the second life of artworks after the auction. There they are, displayed proudly in their new forever homes, to be enjoyed by only the wealthiest, thus worthiest, of art lovers.
*Roll eyes or stick nose up here, depending on your annual income.*
She also takes pictures of famous artworks behind the scenes, or of their wall labels. She once screened the movie The Misfits without any picture. Basically she doesn't actually make make aything or have any original ideas, but takes stuff other people have made and mess with it. In the real world we call this stealing, but in the art world what she does is known as “Appropriation.”
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Louise Lawler (born 1947) is a U.S. artist and photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. From the late 1970s onwards, Lawler’s work has focused on photographing portraits of other artists’ work, giving special attention to the spaces in which they are placed and methods used to make them. Examples of Lawler's photographs include images of paintings hanging on the walls of a museum, paintings on the walls of an art collector's opulent home, artwork in the process of being installed in a gallery, and sculptures in a gallery being viewed by spectators.
Along with artists like Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons and Barbara Kruger, Lawler is considered to be part of the Pictures Generation.
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