Generous support is provided by Candy and Michael Barasch and The Morris A. Hazan Family Foundation, Sueyun and Gene Locks, and Susan and Larry Marx. Sculptures like Blazing Saddles (2003) and All in the Family (2012) enact a range of dialogues—between handcrafted and commercially produced objects, aesthetic and consumer goods, among other topics—and engage broader social and political histories of exchange. SCREAMI, Discover some of our main articles Publis, September Issue #51 - PUBLISHED! Sculpture: 154.9 x 119.4 x 114.3 cm. Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York. As a patron pointed out the other day, if we look for other “wolf” associations, we can find Virginia Woolf, who committed suicide by filling her pockets full of rocks and drowning herself in a river. Rachel Harrison was born in 1966 in New York. The synthetic sheepskin draped around the portrait of Gibson seems to imply that he is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.The fundamental contradiction of his life and work are what is being put on display here. EXPLOSIVE PHYSICAL SHOCK, EDUARDO FUJII – The Uncertain Nature of Reality, Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy- THE MET, Why Art is the Cornerstone of Luxury Brands, An Interview With Nicole Small by Catalin CROITORU. Harrison’s first solo show, at Arena Gallery in New York in 1996, was titled Should home windows or shutters be required to withstand a direct hit from an eight-foot-long two-by-four shot from a cannon at 34 miles an hour, without creating a hole big enough to let through a three-inch sphere? A further dichotomy? The most pressing issue for many is the presence of Mel Gibson in the first place; why is he there? Read Your Ma, RONIT KERET ❄️ @ronitkeret Walker Acquisition Fund, 2008; courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York. EXPLOSIVE PHYSICAL SHOCK That piece of knowledge further opened up the piece to me. The flat front tire of the bicycle, weighed down by the weight of the purses full of rocks, seems also to imply the destructive dynamic inherent in systems of social injustice. Rachel Harrison. The photograph of Mel is a head shot from the movie Braveheart, about William Wallace, who fought (unsuccessfully) to prevent English colonial rule of Scotland. As a white man he is a part (however small) of the English colonization of Australia as well as America, now that he lives here. Harrison has had solo exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum (2002); Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2003); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2004); Migros Museum, Zurich (2007); Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (2009); Portikus, Frankfurt (2009); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010); and Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent (2013). Do you know what else howls? Rachel Harrison’s first full-scale survey will track the development of her career over the past twenty-five years, incorporating room-size installations, autonomous sculpture, photography, and drawing. She lives and works in New York. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. | DECONSTRU, NIMISHA DOONGARWAL I would argue that, as the “man on horseback” so to speak, it is his personal, professional, and celebrity identity that make up the basis for understanding the work, much as John Water’s identities are expressed in the show, Absentee Landlord. Her more recent photographic series Voyage of the Beagle (2007), named after Charles Darwin’s field journal, explores a wide gamut of figural representation ranging from mannequins to public sculptures, from taxidermy animals to 5000-year-old Corsican sculptures.