Erin Shirreff in 'Hinge Pictures: Eight Women Artists Occupy the Third Dimension' at Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans

Hinge Pictures: Eight Women Artists Occupy the Third Dimension is an exhibition in eight-parts, a confrontation with the patrimony of European modernism in the practices of eight leading women artists: Sarah Crowner, Julia Dault, Leslie Hewitt, Tomashi Jackson, Erin Shirreff, Ulla von Brandenburg, Adriana Varejão, and Claudia Wieser.

cross eight successive galleries, this exhibition presents practices that evolve from the flat plane of the wall to immersive sculptural environments. Staging a performance of material history, spatial occupation, and social positioning, Hinge Pictures resuscitates abstract modernist vocabularies, marked by patriarchal and colonial histories, for use in a new feminist formalism.

The exhibition is curated by Andrea Andersson, PhD, The Helis Foundation Chief Curator of Visual Arts at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. Hinge Pictures is on view March 14 – June 16, 2019.

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