Harrison, Rachel

Sculptures by Rachel Harrison are usually brightly colored, have an amorphous silhouette and are ambiguous in content. Many items, such as celebrity magazines, artificial fruits, mannequins, stuffed animals and plants, are fused together into strange assemblages . It mixes abstraction and figurative, biomorphic with architectural, ready-made with hand-made. At the solo exhibition If I Did It in 2007, Harrison exhibited nine sculptures and 57 portraits. The title of the series is related to The Voyage of the Beagle, a travel journal of Darwin . Nine sculptures at the exhibition are named after famous men: Alexander the Great, Johnny Depp , Fats Domino, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Al Gore, John Locke, Pasquale Paoli, Claude Levi-Strauss , Amerigo Vespucci, Tiger Woods . This anti-heroic memorial is a peculiar expression of Harrison’s feminism and an analysis of the cultural context in which the characters came to fame.

• 2007 "If I Did It", Greene Naftali, New York
• 2004 San Francisco MoMA, San Francisco, California
• 2004 Posh Floored as Ali G Tackles Beck, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
• 2004 Posh Floored as Alien Tackles Beck, Camden Arts Center, London
• 2004 Latka / Latkas, Greene Naftali, New York
• 2003 Kunsthall No 5, Bergen, Norway
• 2002 Currents 30: Rachel Harrison, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA
• 2002 Brides and Bases, Oakville Gallery, Oakville, Canada
• 2002 Seven Sculptures, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
• 2001 Perth Amboy, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
• 1999 Patent Pending: Beveled Rasp Sac, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
• 1997 The Look of Dress-Separates, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
• 1996 Should be a direct hit from an eight-foot

It’s a three-inch sphere ?, Arena Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

• Works by Rachel Harrison at the Saatchi Gallery
• New York Times article
• Article about the personal exhibition of the artist