Vivienne Shark LeWitt comedies & proverbs

Journal and magazine articles and reviews
Annear, J, ‘The allegory of Vivienne Shark LeWitt’, On the Beach, no. 5, 1984, pp. 33–5.
—— ‘Us in the US’, Vogue Australia, August 1984, pp. 160–3.
Barden, R, ‘The end of civilization’, Tension, no. 2, 1983, p. 5.
—— ‘Love and fear: Vivienne Shark LeWitt’, Tension, no. 6, 1985, pp. 27–9.
Burke, J, ‘Penetralia: art and psychoanalysis in Melbourne 1940–2004’, Art Monthly, September 2004.
Colless, E, ‘Love’s limbo: paintings of Vivienne Shark LeWitt’, Art & Text, no. 29, 1988, pp. 30–9.
Engberg, J, ‘Vivienne Shark LeWitt’, Art & Text, no. 58, 1997, p. 90.
Frost, A, ‘It’s a beautiful day: new painting in Australia: 2’, Australian Art Collector, no. 23, 2003, p. 97.
Gaynor, A, ‘The decadence of the nude’, un magazine, no. 1, 2004, pp. 21–2.
Holloway, M, ‘Art attack’, Harpers Bazaar Australia, September 1984, p. 106.
Kuspit, DB, ‘“Australian visions” at the Guggenheim’, Art in America, March 1985.
Lumby, C & D Messer, ‘Vivienne Shark LeWitt: personal icons’, Follow Me, December–January 1987, p. 134–7.
McKenzie, R, ‘What girls like’, Art & Text, no. 46, 1993, p. 66–73.
—— ‘Comedies & proverbs’, Heat: luminous gerberas, Giramondo Publishing Company, Artarmon, NSW, no. 15, 2007, pp. 129–44.
Murphy, B, ‘Recent painting in Australia’, Flash Art, January 1983, pp. 56–9.
Pennings, M, ‘Vivienne Shark LeWitt’, Agenda, no. 17, 1991, p. 30.
Simons, P, ‘6th biennale of Sydney’, The Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, no. 1001, 1986, pp. 630–1.
Sullivan, E, ‘Wit as diversion/subversion’, Art Monthly, August 1992, pp. 17–19.
Taylor, P, ‘Australian new wave and the second degree’, Art & Text, no. 1, 1981, p. 23.
—— ‘Civilization and its discontents’, Flash Art, January 1985, pp. 67–9.
Watson, J, ‘Urgent images’, Art & Text, no. 14, 1984, p. 69.
Newspaper articles and reviews
Adams, B, ‘Melbourne art keeps its cool’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 May 1987, p. 49.
Crawford, A, ‘Reorientating the artist’, The Age, 20 September 2003, p. 7.
Hill, P, ‘What seems soufflé-light is actually a slow roast of new-age men and women’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 October 2001, p. 20.
—— ‘You beauty!’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 22–23 November 2002, p. 26.
Fenner, F, ‘Vivienne Shark LeWitt and Tony Clark, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 June 1995.
France, C, ‘Display with designs on the viewer’, The Weekend Australian, 18–19 July 1992, p. 13.
Maloon, T, ‘LeWitt and Arkley show why young artists still dare to be different’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 May 1984, p. 46.
McGrath, S, ‘Wood you believe?’, The Australian, 5–6 June 1982, p. 15.
McKenzie, R, ‘Momentary lapses into nostalgia’, The Age, 8 May 1996.
Nelson, R, ‘In theory, repressed. “Penetralia”’, The Age, 28 July 2004, p. 9.
Raynor, V, ‘Art: capturing essence of a remote Australia’, The New York Times, 5 October 1984, p. C28.
Rooney, R, ‘An unguided tour of love among the ruins’, The Australian, 24 August 1983, p. 50.
—— ‘Obscured by a heart of semi-darkness: the John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize’, The Weekend Australian, 5–6 March 1994, p. 13.
Writing by the artist and commissioned artwork
Shark LeWitt, V, ‘So this is real life? The continuing dissensions of New Wave music’, The Tasmanian Review, no. 1, 1979, pp. 11–13.
—— ‘Why Egyptian mods didn’t bother to bleach their hair or More notes about parkas and combs’, Art & Text, no. 3, 1981, pp. 80–6.
—— ‘The end of civilization. Part II: love among the ruins’, Art & Text, winter, 1983, pp. 1–6.
—— ‘Tattslotto’, Stuff, February 1983.
—— ‘In the desert’, Stuff, August 1983.
—— cover illustration, Art & Text, no. 14, 1984.
—— Other people, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1985.
—— artwork, Kerb Your Dog, no. 4, 1988; no. 7, 1990; & no. 12, 1992.
—— illustration, Pataphysics, no. F, 1990.
—— ‘Paul Taylor 1957–1992’, Art & Text, no. 44, 1993, p. 14.
—— ‘Exactly.’, 200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Vic., 1996.
—— illustration, Like, Art Magazine, no. 1, 1996, pp. 1 & 3.
—— Artfan, no. 6, 1996–97, p. 7.
—— illustration, Like, Art Magazine, no. 2, 1997, p. 3.
—— illustration, Like, Art Magazine, no. 3, 1997, p. 3.
—— poster design, Opera Theatre Company of Ireland, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, 1997.
——Vivienne Shark LeWitt: sorority virtues, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 1998.
—— Caroline Williams: viva Australia: out of my mind, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, 2000.
—— ‘Mystic spiral 3: process’, Like, Art Magazine, no. 13, 2000, p. 2.
Vivienne Shark LeWitt is represented
by Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, and
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
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