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Article: Kerri Scharlin. (Dooley Lecappellaine, New York, New York)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- October 1, 1993
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In her recent exhibition, Kerri Scharlin encircled the gallery with life-size drawings and small, clay figure-studies of herself--portraits produced as part of an elaborate conceptual project. For a period of two months the artist put up flyers in all the New York art schools offering her services as a life model in exchange for the works of art that would result from the sittings.
In inverting the traditional relationship between artist and "muse," Scharlin sought to examine its social and economic nexus. Scharlin's work asks one to imagine the differences that would exist in the system of capital surrounding the work of art, and in art-historical discourse, if ...