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ERIN SHIRREFF APRIL 13 - MAY 19, 2018

ERIN SHIRREFF

APRIL 13 - MAY 19, 2018

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Erin Shirreff’s diverse body of work, which includes photography, video, and sculpture, is united by her interest in the ways we experience three-dimensional forms in an age in which our perception is almost invariably mediated by still and moving images. Her work explores the gap between objects and their representations, and the materials (and materiality) of image-making. A new video, Son (2018), presented as a large-scale projection in the main gallery, interweaves appropriated and handmade still images into a long-duration animation. Rooted in the artist’s experience of the solar eclipse that was visible in the United States in the late summer of 2017, the video centers on a large, dark, circular form that slowly takes shape and shifts identity, changing scale as it locates itself within a cosmic plane or the interior of the artist’s studio. An earlier iteration of Son was presented as part of Shirreff’s solo exhibition in Italy earlier this year, at the Palazzo De’ Toschi in Bologna, curated by Simone Menegoi. For a new series of wall-based works, enlarged scans of halftone book reproductions are printed onto sheets of aluminum that are then cut into shapes – arcs, sticks, curves – and layered in informal compositions within deep-set frames. The works are amalgams of analog and digital materials and processes, and incorporate backdrops of solid colors sourced from the process of making four-color scans of black and white images. These new works relate to Shirreff’s earlier series of Drop sculptures that translate hand-cut scraps of paper into large sheets of raw steel, and to her photographic series Relief —they continue Shirreff’s exploration of scale, material translations, and possible relationships between picture and form. The passage of time and the effects of natural and artificial light are ideas and motifs that recur in Shirreff’s work, and are forces intrinsic to the process of making cyanotype photographs, a practice that the artist continues to explore. The exhibition includes three new large-scale cyanotype photograms that are assembled through collage. Shirreff exposes, cuts and layers her elements, creating compositions that appear radically flat and painterly but include slight evidence of the studio process, the layers of fabric giving texture to the photographic plane. A series of monochrome sculptures on pedestals throughout the gallery resemble castoff paper scraps rendered solid and propped upright on edge – positive casts of negative space. Pulled from one-off molds, the objects bear in-process markings on their edges and planes and suggest hand-cut forms in their missing centers. Intimately scaled cyanotypes exposed directly on pages torn from books feature makeshift vistas for a collection of figurative sculptures from the 20th century. Echoing scale shifts seen elsewhere in the exhibition, these portraits continue the artist’s longstanding interest in the life of objects through pictures.

Erin Shirreff was born in British Columbia, Canada, and now lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Concrete Buildings, Fonderie Darling, Montréal as part of the Momenta Biennale de l’image (2017); Halves and Wholes at Kunsthalle Basel (2016); and a survey exhibition of photographs, sculpture, and video co-curated by the ICA Boston and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (2015-16). Recent group shows include Gray Matters, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2017); Slow Objects, The Common Guild, Glasgow (2017); Photography Today: Distant Realities, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2016); L’image volée, Fondazione Prada, Milan (2016); and Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2015). Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, LACMA, The Museum of Modern Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, and Yale University Art Gallery, among others.

Video still of Son, 2018 Color video, silent, 45 minutes, looped. Edition of 3

Installation views of Son

Painted steel, screen and shade, 2018 Dye sublimation and archival pigment prints, 71.25 x 60.25 inches (181 x 153 cm). Edition of 4

Lacquer, clips and stack, 2018 Dye sublimation and archival pigment prints, 88.25 x 37.25 inches (224.2 x 94.6 cm). Edition of 4

Lacquer, pocket, 2018 Dye sublimation and archival pigment prints, 88.25 x 37.25 inches (224.2 x 94.6 cm). Edition of 4

Edge, plane and arc, 2018 Dye sublimation and archival pigment prints, 52.25 x 72.25 (132.7 x 183.5 cm). Edition of 4

Cuttings, 2018 Cyanotype photogram, muslin over panel, 80 x 70 inches (203.2 x 177.8 cm)

Untitled, 2018 Cyanotype on book page, 10 x 7 inches (25.4 x 17.8 cm)

Studio wall, 2018 Cyanotype photogram on muslin over canvas, 96 x 96 inches (243.8 x 243.8 cm)

Untitled, 2018 Cyanotype on book pages, 11 x 15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm)

Untitled, 2018 Cyanotype on book pages, 10.5 x 15 inches (26.7 x 38.1 cm)

Untitled, 2018 Cyanotype on book page, 10 x 6.5 inches (25.4 x 16.5 cm)

Cutout, 2018 Waxed hydrostone, pedestal, 56.5 x 19 x 19 inches (143.5 x 48.3 x 48.3 cm)

Cutout, 2018 Waxed hydrostone, pedestal, 61.5 x 24 x 22 inches (156.2 x 61 x 55.9 cm)

Cutout, 2018 Waxed hydrostone, pedestal, 53.25 x 19 x 19 inches (135.3 x 48.3 x 48.3 cm)

Cutout, 2018 Waxed hydrostone, pedestal, 54.5 x 24 x 22 inches (138.4 x 61 x 55.9 cm)

Cutout, 2018 Waxed hydrostone, pedestal, 52 x 24 x 22 inches (132.1 x 61 x 55.9 cm)

ERIN SHIRREFF Born 1975, Kelowna, British Columbia Lives and works in New York City

Education

2005 MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, Sculpture 1998 BFA, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Visual Arts

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018 Erin Shirreff, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY Erin Shirreff, Palazzo De’ Toschi, presented by Banca di Bologna, Bologna, Italy 2016 Halves and Wholes, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland 2015 Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA; traveled to: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (catalogue) Arm’s Length, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY 2013 Artpace, San Antonio, TX Day is Long, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY Inside the White Cube, White Cube, London, UK Pictures, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC Lake, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2012 Available Light, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON; traveled to: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON (catalogue) Standing Shadows, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain 2011 The Locker Plant, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX 2010 Still, Flat, and Far, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2009 Landscapes, Heads, Drapery, and Devils, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY

Selected Two-Person and Group Exhibitions

2018 Painting/Object, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY Roesler Hotel #28: Screenspace, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil Kanal – Centre Pompidou: A Prefigurative Year, Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium 2017 You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK Gray Matters, Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH Non Atomic, 2015 Orleans Project Space, Beaumont, TX MOMENTA/Biennale de L’image: Erin Shirreff – Concrete Buildings, Darling Foundry, Montreal, QC Atmospheres of Form, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, QC Slow Objects, The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland Contra, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Fayetteville, AR Editions, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY 2016 L’image volée, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA Photography Today: Distant Realities, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany 41

Open Sesame, Lumber Room, Portland, OR Zabludowicz Collection, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Revolt of the Sage, Blain Southern, London, UK El intruso / cabos sueltos, Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Spain A History of Photography: Selections from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX 2015 Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, Kunsthalle Deutsche Bank, Berlin, Germany; traveled to: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Picture/Thing, Wesleyan University Art Gallery, Middletown, CT Form Regained, i8, Reykjavik, Iceland Part Picture, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MoCCA), Toronto, ON Partial Presence, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK A kind of graphic unconscious, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, ON Stay Illusion, tenpm, Copenhagen, Denmark Camera of Wonders, Centro de la Imágen, Mexico City, Mexico The Sculptor’s Eye: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from the Collection, de Cordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA Night Walk, performance collaboration with Frank Heath, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA 2014 To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle: Visions, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy Never Enough: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Trieste, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue) Allegory of the Cave Painting. The Other Way Around, Extra City Kunsthal Middleheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium (catalogue) I know not to know, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria The Fifth Season, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY 2013 Repertory, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy (catalogue) Elements, Rudiments, and Principles, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA Aimia/AGO Photography Prize, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON Remainder, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK Lens Drawings, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France (catalogue) The Camera’s Blind Spot, Museo d’Arte di Nuoro, Italy (catalogue) Trieste, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY A Handful of Dust, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA Disappearing Into One, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK 2012 Once Removed, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Lost Line: Selections from the Permanent Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA Terrain Shift, Lumber Room, Portland, OR Voice of Images, François Pinault Foundation, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy (catalogue) Zabludowicz Collection Inaugural Exhibition, Sarvisalo, Finland Shapeshift, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK Science on the back end, Hauser and Wirth, New York, NY Trieste, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Italy Three Evidentiary Claims, CCS Bard Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Today, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY 42

Recto/Verso, The approach, London, UK LE SILENCE Une fiction, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (catalogue) Ruins in Reverse, Room East, New York, NY 2011 A Promise is a Cloud, Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY Structure & Absence, White Cube, London, UK (catalogue) Look with all your eyes, look, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK Miriam Böhm, Rosy Keyser, Erin Shirreff, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY Another Victory Over the Sun, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO The Anxiety of Photography, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (catalogue); traveled to Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX (catalogue) Tabula Rasa, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain The Promise, Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris, France To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong? The Power Plant, Toronto, ON 2010 Which Witch is Which? and/or Summertime, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO (catalogue) Immaterial, Ballroom Marfa, TX (catalogue) What a Difference a Day Makes, Andreas Grimm, Munich, Germany S-N-W-O, Drei Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Cologne, Germany The Fifth Genre, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY Between Here and There, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Greater New York 2010, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY (catalogue) Knight’s Move, Sculpture Center, Queens, NY (catalogue) Terminus Ante Quem, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL David Musgrave and Erin Shirreff, The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 2009 Herd Thinner, Charest-Weinberg, Miami, FL To the left of the rising sun, Small A Projects Upstate, Greenwich, NY Dark Fair, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany On From Here (Time Pyramid), Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY Broken Thorn Sweet Blackberry, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY 2008 Creswell Crags, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY Some Thing Else, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY

Monographs

2015 Chaffee, Cathleen and Jenelle Porter. Erin Shirreff. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Boston: ICA/Boston. 2013 Allen, Jan, Sandra Dyck, and Jenifer Papararo. Erin Shirreff. Ottawa: Carlton University Art Gallery; Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre; Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery.

Public Collections

Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Nouveau MusĂŠe National de Monaco, Monaco Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

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