Rachel Harrison

The illustrations contained within this issue of Diacritics are of the mixed media work by New York artist Rachel Harrison. All art courtesy of Greene Naftali Gallery, New York.

Rachel Harrison received her Bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University. She has had several solo shows at the MONA in San Francisco, the Greene Naftali Gallery in New York, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Transmission Gallery in Glasgow, the Camden Art Center in London, Arndt & Partner in Berlin as well as numerous group shows. Her work is represented in several museums including the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan, the MOMA, the Whitney, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and the San Francisco Museum of Fine Art.

The following is an excerpt from an Artist's Statement by Rachel Harrison:

In much of Harrison's work, there is a kind of internal tug-of-war of elements, what the formalists called "relational" with respect to composition, extended to include social, economic, material, and "mediation" factors. And while other deployments of discontinuity and non sequitur often lead you back to an interpretive place, a place of thought, Harrison's work leads you to a place of nonthought, looking at the specific thing before you. The sculptures sit in the room like yearning creatures caked in the sludge of capitalist desire. Nothing here really seems anchored: like an acrobat, these impermanent materials put on a tour de force of formalistic skill. If social possibility is to be found here, it is in the way of families with nothing much to talk about anymore. The art is equivalent to being stranded in an airport.

Please contact the Greene Naftali Gallery for more information. info@greenenaftaligallery.com

Cover.

Pretty Discreet,
Rachel Harrison

Figure 1.

Indigenous Parts
Rachel Harrison
(Page 2)

Figure 2.

Untitled (Cardboard Labyrinth)
Rachel Harrison
(Page 23)

Figure 3.

9 of Diamonds
Rachel Harrison
(Page 45)

Figure 4.

Untitled (Becky, Friend of Barbie—detail)
Rachel Harrison
(Page 87)

Figure 5.

Silent Account 101
Rachel Harrison
(Page 112)

Figure 6.

Marilyn with Wall
Rachel Harrison
(Page 140)

Figure 7.

Seven of Nine
Rachel Harrison
(Page 162)

Figure 8.

Reno
Rachel Harrison
(Page 188)