At Clark: Exhibit looks at ways artwork can be looked at
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Erin Shirreff’s works “Bronze” and “Four-color café terrace,” both on view at the Clark, are like visual art versions of that old game Telephone where you start with a word, whisper it around a circle and end up with something entirely different.
To create “Bronze,” she used a page from an art history book (written by Julia Busch) that reproduced a picture (taken by photographer Rudy Burckhardt) of a bronze sculpture (made by artist David Silva), which was inspired by ancient Roman marbles. Shirreff enlarged the print enough to reveal the traces of the sculptor’s hand, printed it on aluminum sheets, cut up the sheets and arranged them in a frame.
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The free exhibition is on view in public spaces in the Lower Clark Center and the Reading Room of the Manton Research Center through Jan. 2, 2022. Erin Shirreff: Remainders presents photographs, prints, and video that examine Shirreff s fascination with the mythmaking behind art history through a practice that spans analog and digital media, two and three dimensions, and still and moving images. The opportunity to present some of Erin Shirreff s recent works is an exciting extension of our ongoing engagement with contemporary artists, said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark Art Institute. Shirreff s work graces our public spaces with modernist forms that are visually appealing but also have both conceptual weight and technical rigor. We look forward to sharing them with our visitors.
Exhibition at the Clark Art Institute highlights the work of contemporary artist Erin Shirreff
Erin Shirreff: Remainders on view through January 2, 2022.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS
.-The Clark Art Institute is featuring a new year-long exhibition highlighting the work of contemporary artist Erin Shirreff (Canadian, b. 1975). Erin Shirreff: Remainders presents photographs, prints, and video that examine Shirreffs fascination with the mythmaking behind art history through a practice that spans analog and digital media, two and three dimensions, and still and moving images. The free exhibition is on view in public spaces in the Lower Clark Center and the Reading Room of the Manton Research Center through January 2, 2022.
WILLIAMSTOWN â Erin Sherriff s work is art that requires and rewards close looking.
It requires forensic attention to detail as things often arenât quite what they seem, says Robert Wiesenberger, associate curator of contemporary projects at the Clark Art Institute.
Working across mediums, Sherriff uses photography, sculpture and video to shape and reshape two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art as she explores what happens to an artwork once it enters the public record and is interpreted and re-interpreted by society and art historians.
Her work is the subject of a yearlong exhibition, Erin Shirreff: Remainders, in public spaces at The Clark â the Reading Room of the Clarkâs Manton Research Center and the lower Clark Center â which are accessible when the museum is open without an admission fee. The exhibit is the second yearlong installation in the Clarkâs public spaces that Wiesenberger has organized as part of an ongoing seri