Erin Shirreff

Kindly donated by the artist and Sikkema Jenkins and Co.

Erin Shirreff’s interest in in-between states and focus on formal characteristics—volume, shape, and dimension—influence her sculptures, photographs, and videos. Her works often feature abstract, geometric forms or images of representational elements, such as abandoned architectural structures, rendered semi-abstract by the artist’s framing and presentation. In many of her compositions, Shirreff blurs the lines between two- and three-dimensional space, and wholeness and incompleteness. Her sculptures consist of variously arranged planes, which appear to shift—expanding and flattening—when viewed from different angles. In her photographs, she pieces together images of disparate sculptural forms, demonstrating that sculpture can be crafted in two dimensions. All of Shirreff’s work reflects her interest in the openness of objects and undefined situations—a state she describes as a “wonderful zone of possibility.”- Artsy

Erin Shirreff (b. 1975) was born in British Columbia, Canada, and now lives and works in Montreal.  Recent solo exhibitions include Midday dilemma, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (2022); Sculptures and their shadows, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York (2021); Erin Shirreff: Remainders, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (2021); and New Work: Erin Shirreff, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (2019). A survey exhibition of Shirreff’s sculpture, photography, and video was co-curated by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, NY and the ICA/Boston, MA in 2015-2016. Her work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, LACMA, The Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, and MCA Chicago, among others.