Erin Shirreff

Canadian, active in United States, born 1975

Knife

© Erin Shirreff

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© Erin Shirreff

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Knife, 2008

Artwork Details

Materials

black-and-white inkjet print

Edition:

1/3

Measurements

support: 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Credit

George Cary and Armand J. Castellani Funds, 2014

Accession ID

P2014:7

Erin Shirreff characterizes the works in her Knife series as portraits of sculptures that no longer exist, recordings of real things made in time and space. The photographs portray rudimentary knives, flints, and other pointy, vaguely threatening implements, all of which the artist sculpted on a small scale with modeling clay.

Label from Erin Shirreff, January 23–May 8, 2016

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