After Man Ray (La Fortune): 6

Sherrie Levine

1990

Mahogany, felt, resin

Dallas Museum of Art

"I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them." —Sherrie Levine Sherrie Levine's pool table is a sculptural representation of the painting La Fortune by American surrealist Man Ray. Eerie and dreamlike, red and white billiards balls rest serenely on a field of green exactly as they are seen in Ray's painting, while the stylized legs of the table have been reproduced down to their last quirky detail. Levine's table refers to a moment in art history (surrealism) that saw the revolutionary power of art give voice to the unconscious and the irrational, yet here the object seems m