Rachel Harrison. (Preview).MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is located on Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The museum's history began in 1888 when the Milwaukee Art Association was created by a group of German panorama artists and local businessmen; its first home was the Layton Art Gallery. Few young artists can create a bustle, much less a cooing quorum, among testy tes·ty adj. tes·ti·er, tes·ti·est Irritated, impatient, or exasperated; peevish: a testy cab driver; a testy refusal to help. critical camps. Happily, there's Rachel Harrison Rachel Harrison (born 1966, New York) is an artist based in New York. Harrison has show work internationally in many exhibitions including ‘Posh Floored as Ali G Tackles Beck’ at Arndt & Partner [1] in Berlin, ‘Should home windows or shutters be . Her work is smart, fun, and, well, weird--often a sui generis [Latin, Of its own kind or class.] That which is the only one of its kind. sui generis (sooh-ee jen-ur-iss) n. Latin for one of a kind, unique. marriage of photography and sculpture in which she manages to present and interrogate a strange moment, where the formal abstraction of post-Minimal objecthood encounters the effluvia of popular culture (Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, and toy figurines have starred in recent pieces). For Harrison's first solo museum show, visiting curator Stefano Basilico has chosen six richly hybrid sculptures (her favorite materials include Styrofoam, papier-mache, plywood, and cement) and more than a dozen photographs. Let's hope a catalogue will accompany what promises to be a bracing survey of a bright young artist's work. Sept. 20-Jan. 5. |
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