Erin Shirreff at Lisa Cooley Gallery

At over nine feet tall, New York-based Erin Shirreff’s hot-rolled steel sculpture ‘Drop (no. 3)’ is imposing without being overbearing.  The elongated shapes, hung from a steel rod, derive from paper scraps created by the artist and turn leftovers into the monumental main attraction.  (At Lisa Cooley Gallery on the Lower East Side through June 23rd).  

Erin Shirreff, Drop (no. 3), raw hot-rolled steel, 2013.