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 sculpture in a gallery being viewed by spectators.
Early life and career
Lawler was born in 1947 in Bronxville, New York.She earned a B.F.A. at Cornell University, and moved to Manhattan in 1969, where she soon took a job at the Castelli Gallery. There, she met Janelle Reiring, who would go on to co-found Metro Pictures with Helene Winer in 1980.
https://artsorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/pexels-photo-3856052-e1631863067204.jpeg
Leave a Reply