Cindy Sherman, New Work, Metro Pictures, Card, 1985

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Offset print, 7 1/2″ x 5″.

Helene Winer was the director of Artists Space, and Cindy Sherman the receptionist, in the late 1970s, when the non-profit gallery was located in the Fine Arts Building, where it hosted the groundbreaking exhibition “Pictures.” Winer went on, with Janelle Reiring, to found the commercial gallery Metro Pictures, where Sherman made the switch to featured artist. Sherman’s second solo show at Metro Pictures (advertised here) featured her first large color photographs. She is now one of the most prominent artists associated with the “Pictures Generation.”

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Cindy Sherman Downtown Galleries Gallery Exhibition Cards Metro Pictures Pictures Generation Soho/Tribeca Galleries

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40 Top Art Events of the Downtown Era: A Timeline, 1974–1992

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The Downtown Era began in the 1970s, when aspiring artists of the baby-boomer generation arrived in New York. Over the next two decades, they would radically change the art world, opening it up to new forms of media, new modes of exhibiting art, and new social perspectives.