Trefoil Looking Glass
In collaboration with Anna Riley
Group exhibition, The Third, Meaning: ESTAR(SER) Installs the Frye Collection, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
October 15, 2022–October 15, 2023
Permanent Collection of the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Trefoil Looking Glass is a handmade lens by Justin Ginsberg and Anna Riley: three solid glass spheres fused into a transparent shamrock. Held up to a single object, it splits the view into three, turning an ordinary glance into a slow, deliberate act of attention. Made for The Third, Meaning: ESTAR(SER) Installs the Frye Collection (2022–23) at the Frye Art Museum, it was mounted on a stand for visitors to use and presented in the exhibition catalog as a para-fictional artifact from the "Frye Trunk." The work was later acquired for the museum's permanent collection.
Trefoil Looking Glass
6" x 6" x 3"
Solid glass lenses, fused
2022
Justin Ginsberg and Anna Riley
Collection of the Frye Art Museum, Seattle
Installation view, Frye Art Museum, 2022.
Each sphere holds its own upside-down view of the gallery.
Julius Scheuerer (German, 1859–1913)
Peacock, 1907
Oil on canvas, 36 1/2 x 24 1/2 in.
Frye Art Museum, Charles and Emma Frye Collection, 1952.148
Image courtesy Frye Art Museum
Julius Scheuerer, Peacock, 1907, shown as painted and as installed: hung upside down so the Trefoil Looking Glass returns it upright.
Frye Art Museum, Charles and Emma Frye Collection.
More on this work and Exhibition:
Exhibition catalog entry: Frye Art Museum: THE THIRD, MEANING: ESTAR(SER) Installs the Frye Collection (PDF) →
Exhibition Brochure: Frye Art Museum: THE THIRD, MEANING: ESTAR(SER) Installs the Frye Collection →
Frye Art Museum: THE THIRD, MEANING: ESTAR(SER) Installs the Frye Collection →