
Vivienne Shark LeWitt: comedies & proverbs
Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne 2008
Born Sale, Victoria Australia 1956
Lives and works in Daylesford
Vivienne Shark Lewitt is a painter and cartoonist whose astute wit and subversive humour have underpinned her discursive and allegorical paintings which pointedly, and at times poignantly, reveal the peculiarity, complexity and absurdity of the human condition.
Drawing upon both art historical and literary sources, the artist subtly interrogates past traditions, quoting different elements in ironic combinations which confront and confound the viewer with their ambiguous and enigmatic narratives.
Peter Tyndall, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Chiharu Shiota
I draw, therefore I think
11th September – 23rd October 2021
SOUTH SOUTH
Vivienne Shark LeWitt
The Wind Blows Where It Will
13th March – 17th April 2021
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Vivienne Shark LeWitt
Massa Peccati: The Seven Deadly Sins
27th July – 14th August 2010
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Vivienne Shark LeWitt
DISORENTIALISM
4th September – 4th October 2003
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Vivienne Shark LeWitt
The Wind Bloweth Where it Listeth, 2020
water based paint on Hessian
triptych: 122 x 31 cm; 80.5 x 40 cm; 122 x 31 cm
Photo: Zan Wimberley
Vivienne Shark LeWitt
Le Hameau de le Reine, 2020
water based paint on Hessian
triptych: 26 x 21 cm; 50 x 60 cm; 26 x 21 cm
Photo: Zan Wimberley
Vivienne Shark LeWitt
Pine Tree, 2018
water based paint on linen
91 x 72 cm
Photo: Zan Wimberley
Vivienne Shark LeWitt
Saint Clare, 2016
water based paint on linen
76 x 46 cm
Photo: Zan Wimberley
Vivienne Shark LeWitt
The True Legend of Lady Godiva, 2004
oil and crayon on linen
61.5 x 56 cm
Vivienne Shark LeWitt
Fortitude (Notre Dame), 1998
oil on linen
112 x 92 cm
Vivienne Shark LeWitt
I sing the sofa (9am), 1995
oil on linen
86 x 137 cm
The second edition of Melbourne Now will be presented at The Ian Potter Centre […]
Read More