New work by Shirreff in her first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition title derives from a list of things that are commonly “seen” when we are confronted with perceptual ambiguity. In the moments before our mind can reconcile an unfamiliar shape or mass, it overlays fragments of a known quantity in an effort to recognize and order our experience. This process of projection and the fragments of our selves that we embed into our understanding of the world—the making of recognition—has been the basis of Shirreff’s photography, video, and sculpture for the past several years.
Shirreff lives and works in New York City. Recent exhibitions include Broken Thorn Sweet Blackberry at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Some Thing Else at Peter Blum, both in New York, To the left of the rising sun with Small A Projects Upstate, and the Dark Fair at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne. She will present a solo booth for Frame at the 2009 Frieze Art Fair and will be exhibiting alongside Barbara Kasten and Anthony Pearson at Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago in spring 2010.
New York City, NY; NYC