NADA New York 2024

Louise Lawler is a prominent figure among the Pictures Generation, a group of artists who emerged in the seventies and eighties questioning the nature of artwork as imagery, imagery as artwork and the production of meaning through cycles of presentation and re-presentation.

Lawler is primarily known for her photographs of artworks in museums, galleries, auction houses and collector’s homes, which illustrate the reflexive influence of context to the reception of art. In 2017, Lawler began digitally altering her images to render them “distorted for the times” – a series of works mirroring the turbulent and unsettling influence media, information and politics have on what we see and how we know. In this unique edition, Lawler’s distortion of Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962) installed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, produces a disorienting and dreamlike lens onto this familiar work, extending its critique of consumerism, culture and modernity.