The exhibition showcases over 40 works of collage, photography, sculpture, and video by the internationally renowned contemporary artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MILWAUKEE, WI<\/strong>\u2014February 27, 2025\u2014The Milwaukee Art Museum presents the most comprehensive exhibition in a decade of works by Erin Shirreff, a highly regarded contemporary artist at the forefront of sculpture, photography, and video. Erin Shirreff: Permanent Drafts<\/a><\/em> showcases over 40 recent works, including installations specific to the Milwaukee Art Museum, and will be on view May 30\u2013August 31, 2025, in the Museum\u2019s Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Erin Shirreff (b. 1975) creates boundary-crossing art that explores the gap between images and the things they picture. Trained as a sculptor, Shirreff understands photography as a significant but imperfect means of conveying three-dimensional objects. Her work focuses on the reproductions through which we often access art, inviting audiences to consider how each of us sees and interprets the world around us. Shifting across time, material, and dimension, her art rewards in-person engagement and slow, close looking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhile photographs increasingly lose trust as conveyors of knowledge, Erin Shirreff\u2019s work, which dwells in the place between image and object, has only become more relevant,\u201d said the exhibition\u2019s curator Kristen Gaylord, Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts<\/strong>. \u201cI have long admired her thoughtful approach to the generative potential of representation, and it has been a joy to collaborate with her in bringing this wide-ranging presentation of her recent work to Milwaukee.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exhibition will be installed in the Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts, the Museum\u2019s dynamic space dedicated to photography, film, video, and light installations. Since 2015, when it was established, the Herzfeld Center has been home to cutting-edge exhibitions that feature artists who shape, push the boundaries of, and expand photography and media arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cErin Shirreff: Permanent Drafts<\/em> continues the Museum\u2019s exploration into the expansive world of photography, beyond the traditional print to the medium\u2019s larger role in art and society,\u201d said Elizabeth Siegel, Chief of Curatorial Affairs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hear from the artist herself on Thursday, August 7, when Erin Shirreff will present an artist talk in Lubar Auditorium, and engage with Milwaukee experts on Thursday, August 28, at the Haberman Local Luminaries program taking place in the Herzfeld Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Leadership sponsors<\/strong> Exhibitions in the Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts are sponsored by<\/strong> The Milwaukee Art Museum extends its sincere thanks to the Visionaries.<\/strong> The Milwaukee Art Museum is an essential destination for art and architecture and a vital cultural resource that connects visitors to dynamic art experiences and one another. Housed in iconic buildings by Santiago Calatrava, Eero Saarinen, and David Kahler on a 24-acre lakefront campus, the Museum is Wisconsin\u2019s largest art institution and home to both broad and deep collections, with exceptional holdings in American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts; conceptual and minimalist art; prints and drawings; European art from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century; photography and new media; modern and contemporary design; folk and self-taught art; and twentieth-century Haitian art. A bold symbol of Milwaukee\u2019s ambition and forward-thinking vision, the Museum is a place for community building, education, and celebration that fosters creativity, free speech, and critical discourse for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. For more information, visit mam.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Erin Shirreff\u2019s work has been featured in recent solo exhibitions at SITE Santa Fe (2024); Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (2021\u201322); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2019); and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2016). A survey exhibition of her photography, sculpture, and video was co-organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and the Buffalo AKG Museum, New York, in 2015\u201316. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; among others. Shirreff was born in 1975 and lives and works in Montreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information or to request hi-res images, please contact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cortney Heimerl<\/strong> Image:<\/strong> Erin Shirreff (Canadian, b. 1975), Paper sculpture<\/em> (detail), 2024. Dye sublimation prints on aluminum and latex paint. 74\u215c \u00d7 102\u00bc \u00d7 5\u00be in. 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Estate of Anna Cordelia Parkin
Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s Friends of Art
Christine A. Symchych and James P. McNulty<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Herzfeld Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mark and Debbie Attanasio
Donna and Donald Baumgartner
Murph Burke
The Helmerich Trust
Kenneth and Alice Kayser
Joan Lubar and John Crouch
Joel and Caran Quadracci
Sue and Bud Selig
Jeff and Gail Yabuki<\/p>\n\n\n\nAbout the Milwaukee Art Museum<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
About Erin Shirreff<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Media Contact<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Milwaukee Art Museum
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