{"id":624,"date":"2017-02-08T17:33:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=624"},"modified":"2017-03-31T12:20:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T11:20:33","slug":"penny-mccarthy-material-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/penny-mccarthy-material-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Material Truths at Site Gallery features work by Penny McCarthy, Reader in Fine Art &#8211; opens 17 February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Material Truths<br \/>\nSite Gallery, Sheffield<br \/>\nFriday 17 February &#8211; Friday 10 March 2017<br \/>\nOpen Tuesday &#8211; Saturday 11.00am &#8211; 5.30pm<br \/>\nAdmission is free<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitegallery.org\/archives\/10222\" target=\"_blank\">Material Truths<\/a>, featuring work from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/penny-mccarthy\" target=\"_blank\">Penny McCarthy<\/a>, opens at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitegallery.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Site Gallery Sheffield<\/a> on Friday 17 February 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/penny-mccarthy\" target=\"_blank\">Penny McCarthy<\/a>: Folder explores the framework of meaning that is produced when representations of material forms are transported between the material world and the digital domain. Through a series of drawings that replicate details from historic works, my research considers the temporal relation between works of art. The drawings are close facsimiles of material found online, citing and reversing the detachment from hand-made processes. Although image reproduction is available at a post-historical click, the painstaking, time-consuming execution of my work is its most notable feature.<\/p>\n<p>Experimenting with Google\u2019s image search engine I \u2018return\u2019 my copies to image-search for \u2018equivalent\u2019 images. The plagiarism search engine software appears unable to read my images correctly and, on further testing, it cannot locate any of my sources from my drawn copies. The Google \u2018equivalents\u2019, the demonstration of what the artificial intelligence \u2018sees\u2019, inflects my works conceptually; the old medium of drawing dissolving into the new atomised world. The research locates a \u2018resolution gap\u2019 between the digital files and current search technology, meaning that software capable of matching the search does not yet exist. It is possible to assume that at a certain point technology will improve, enabling a different result. However, part of the conceptual content of the work is the process of switching between these images, a dialogue between my works and the source. <\/p>\n<p>This research reflects and depicts new modes of communication: new social spaces, collapsing of distances, establishing new ones. Politics, after John Berger, is at play, in the proposition that works of art represent\u2014and make felt\u2014the inextricability of self and systems. <\/p>\n<p>And, as Berger wrote in Ways of Seeing (1972): \u2018the relation between what we see and we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.\u2019<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/penny-mccarthy\" target=\"_blank\">Penny McCarthy<\/a> is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about this new exhibition, please visit: http:\/\/www.sitegallery.org\/archives\/10222.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Joan\u2019s Hand, Tracey Holland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Material Truths Site Gallery, Sheffield Friday 17 February &#8211; Friday 10 March 2017 Open Tuesday &#8211; Saturday 11.00am &#8211; 5.30pm Admission is free Material Truths, featuring work from Penny McCarthy, opens at Site Gallery Sheffield on Friday 17 February 2017. Penny McCarthy: Folder explores the framework of meaning that is produced when representations of material forms are transported between the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1158,"featured_media":623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[198,139],"tags":[5,109,244,146,147],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-fine-art-research","tag-material-truths","tag-penny-mccarthy","tag-site-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2014\/12\/MCCARTHY-2017-02-MATERIAL-TRUTHS.jpg?fit=246%2C384&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-a4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7943,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/penny-mccarthy-evelyn-williams-drawing-prize\/","url_meta":{"origin":624,"position":0},"title":"Penny McCarthy wins the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"03\/10\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Update - 10 December 2019\u00a0 Penny's achievement was recently featured in the Contemporary Visual Arts Network in a piece celebrating three Sheffield artists winning prestigious national awards over the past few months. 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