SANTA FE, NM.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is presenting concurrent solo exhibitions of work by two gallery artists—Arturo Herrera: You are here and Erin Shirreff: Folded stone, on view at SITE Santa Fe from March 8 through May 27, 2024.

For more than 30 years, German-based/Venezuelan-born artist Arturo Herrera has dedicated himself to investigating and understanding the complex histories and influences of abstraction and modernist visual languages. You are here highlights the diverse and expansive nature of Herrera’s practice, showcasing sculpture, relief, painting, mixed media works on paper, collage, photography, glass, felt pieces, and two newly commissioned works, an architectural intervention titled Split, 2023, installed in the Wallerstein Family Courtyard and Terrace, and Quarry, 2024, a large-scale site-specific wall painting. Read more.

Arturo Herrera (b. 1959, Caracas, Venezuela) received his BFA from the University of Tulsa (1982) and his MFA from the University of Chicago at Illinois (1992). Two monumental, site-specific paintings are currently on public view in London for the 12th edition of Sculpture in the City. His work was most recently the subject of major solo exhibitions Arturo Herrera: Between at The Contemporary Dayton, OH (2023) and Constructed Collage at Ruby City, San Antonio, TX (2022-23). His work is included in the public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; and Tate Modern, London. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, ArtPace San Antonio, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the DAAD, Berlin. Herrera lives and works in Berlin.

ERIN SHIRREFF
Folded stone

SITE Santa Fe is presenting Folded stone, a solo exhibition by Erin Shirreff, whose spare, evocative works pose fundamental questions about how art is received and remembered. Though trained as a sculptor, Shirreff centers her practice on acts of material translation, revealing how sculpture’s defining traits—real space, live encounter—adjust when filtered through other formats. These “hybrid scenarios,” as the artist describes them, recur throughout the exhibition: a new monumental sculpture, for instance, is inspired by grainy images of a mid-century example; photographs are printed and then cut or creased to gain near-sculptural dimension; the glacial pan of a digital video conflates still and moving image. Read more.

Erin Shirreff (b.1975, British Columbia, Canada) currently lives and works in Montreal. She earned an MFA in sculpture from Yale University in 2005. Recent solo exhibitions of Shirreff's work have been held at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (2021–22); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2019); Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2016); Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) (2016); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2015). Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.