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Rachel Harrison

Untitled (éclair/ham)

2007

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Rachel Harrison

Untitled (éclair/ham)

2007

Physical Qualities Inkjet prints, Sheet (each): 991 x 711 mm. (39 x 28 in.)
Credit Line Purchased in Honor of Darsie Alexander, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, 2005-2008, with funds from the Nathan L. and Suzanne F. Cohen Contemporary Art Fund, Stiles Tuttle Colwill, and Janet E. Dunn; and partial gift of the Artist and Greene Naftali Gallery
Object Number 2008.122a-b
Drawing from popular culture and everyday life, Rachel Harrison has built a body of work that playfully questions traditional distinctions between kitsch and fine art, as well as between sculpture and photography. In her contemporary still-life compositions, Harrison juxtaposes foods typically offered for sale by street vendors and in cheap restaurants. By employing unusual angles and extreme close-ups that make the familiar look strange, Harrison subverts any effort to create an appealing or idealized aura around these products for mass consumption. Instead she renders them wholly unappetizing as food, but entirely intriguing as constructed arrangements of color, shape, volume, and texture.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2008; Greene Naftali Inc., New York
Dieter Roth / Rachel Harrison

Artist

Rachel Harrison

1965–2000

born New York, NY 1966
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