Louise Lawler rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, during a time of rising excesses in both the American stock and commercial art markets. She focuses her camera on the lifecycle of notable works of art, which she photographs moving through various installations in galleries, storage facilities, museums, and collectors’ homes, drawing attention to the vicarious relationship between content and context—how we respond differently to a work hung on a museum wall compared to the same work placed unceremoniously in storage, for example. For two works in Glenstone’s collection, Does Andy Warhol Make You Cry?, 1988, and Does Marilyn Monroe Make You Cry?, 1988, Lawler photographed Warhol’s painting Round Marilyn, 1962, against the carpeted walls of a sales room at Christie’s auction house. Lawler draws attention to how subtle differences impact the way we make meaning of objects.

–From the Glenstone Field Guide