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Elizabeth Duffy, Shirting 4, 2026
11 x 8 1/2 inches
Tailor’s chalk and pencil on paper
$1300 Unframed
Shirting is a series of drawings made with tailor’s chalk and pencil on standard Xerox paper (8 1/2 × 11 inches), using the patterns of corporate shirts as both structure and subject. Drawn at the scale of bureaucracy: letters, contracts, policies; the works mirror systems they reference.
Corporate shirting functions as a symbol of power dressing and institutional authority, but also of conformity, anonymity, and erasure. Lines tear, fade, and overlap, suggesting precarity, instability, and inherent violence. These drawings consider how capitalism shapes bodies, behavior, and visibility, and how the language of professionalism masks imbalance and imparts control. Shirting reflects on power as something worn, standardized, and increasingly fragile at a moment when democracy feels at risk.
Elizabeth Duffy is an artist and educator based in Providence, Rhode Island. She has exhibited her work widely, including at the Drawing Center, White Columns, Wave Hill, and DM Contemporary in NYC, the RISD Museum in Providence, the Newport Art Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Aldrich Museum, and Espace Senghors in Brussels. Duffy holds an MFA from CUNY/Brooklyn College and a BA from Rutgers College. She studied French Language and Culture at the Sorbonne in Paris, and did graduate work in Art and Art History at CUNY/Hunter College, in Fashion and Textile Studies at FIT, and Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture at the New York Studio School. She is the recipient of awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She currently teaches in the Art Department at Roger Williams University.
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