Guest Gallery Talk: “Erin Shirreff: Permanent Drafts”

Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts

Join John Riepenhoff, Executive Director of Sculpture Milwaukee and founder of The Green Gallery, for an in-depth exploration of the themes and topics in the exhibition Erin Shirreff: Permanent Drafts.

About John Riepenhoff

John Riepenhoff was born in 1982 in Milwaukee, WI where he lives and works. He earned a BFA from the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, founding The Green Gallery while still a student there. His artistic practice and roles curating and directing projects were intertwined from the beginning, each role informing the others. Riepenhoff currently runs The Open Fund and the Beer Endowment to create revenue streams for artist-run projects. He is Executive Director at Sculpture Milwaukee. He co-founded the Milwaukee International and Dark Fairs, advises collections, and is an inventor of artistic platforms for the expression of others. His exhibitions and curatorial projects have been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, Arkansas; Poor Farm, Wisconsin; Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee; Inova, Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta; and John Michael Kohler Art Preserve, Sheboygan, Wisconsin among others. He was the 2015 Milwaukee Arts Board Artist of the Year and is a frequent collaborator on food and design projects.

This drop-in experience is included with Museum admission and is free for Members. Admission tickets are available at the door or online.

The Milwaukee Art Museum is grateful to its exhibition sponsors.

Image: Erin Shirreff (Canadian, b. 1975), Fig. 4 (detail), 2017. Archival pigment print. 43½ × 57½ × 3¼ in. Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York. © Erin Shirreff