Rachel Harrison Life Hack

About this book

The work of the sculptor Rachel Harrison is both the zeitgeist and the least digestible in contemporary art. It may also be the most important owing to an originality that breaks a prevalent spell in an art world of recycled genres styles and ideas.Peter Schjeldahl The New Yorker In her sculptures room-sized installations drawings photographs and artists books Rachel Harrison (b. 1966) delves into themes of celebrity culture pop psychology history and politics. This publication created in close collaboration with the artist explores twenty-five years of her practice and is the first comprehensive monograph on Harrison in nearly a decade. Its centerpiece is an in-depth plate section which doubles as a chronology of Harrisons major works series and exhibitions. Objects are illustrated with multiple views and details and accompanied by short texts. This thorough approach elucidates Harrisons complicated eclectic oeuvrein which she integrates found materials with handmade sculptural elements upends traditions of museum display and injects quotidian objects with a sense of strangeness. Six accompanying essays cover Harrisons earliest works to her most recent output. The book also includes a handful of photo-collages that the artist created specifically for this project. Published here for the first time these pieces superimpose found images with reproductions of Harrisons own past work. Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art Exhibition Schedule: Whitney Museum of American Art New York (October 25 2019January 12 2020)