November 10 - January 12, 2019
A show of photographs and sculptures by artist Erin Shirreff. “Shirreff’s photographic series Fig. comprises black-and-white images of sculptures she makes with pigmented plaster. The sculptures are simple geometric shapes with soft curves and sharp edges–reminiscent of mid-century modernist sculpture by artists like Tony Smith, Alexander Calder, Anthony Caro, and Henry Moore. Each Fig. print, rather than lying flat in its frame (as photographs usually do), looks more like an open book–with a vertical fold down the middle of the piece making its left and right halves billow away from each other like a spread of two pages. This fold (which approximates a book’s gutter) joins two bisected images of different sculptures–as if the photograph were an Exquisite Corpse drawing–to create a single hybrid object that never existed in three dimensions.”
Opening: November 10, 2018 | 6–8 pm
Artist talk at 7PM
1126 W 6th St
Austin, 78703 TX
(512) 215-4965
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