Rachel Harrison

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RACHEL HARRISON: MUSEUM WITH WALLS
CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES, BARD COLLEGE/WHITECHAPEL GALLERY/PORTIKUS
ISBN: 9781936192038 | US $65.00
Pub Date: 8/31/2010
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RACHEL HARRISON: IF I DID IT
Edited by Heike Munder. Text by Ellen Seifermann, John Kelsey, Heike Munde.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905770568 | US $49.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2008
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RACHEL HARRISON: CURRENTS 30
Essays by Stefano Basilico, Gareth James and John Kelsey. Foreword by David Gordon.
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM
ISBN: 9780944110980 | US $19.95
Pub Date: 2/2/2004
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Rachel Harrison

Rachel Harrison: Museum With Walls

Text by Tom Eccles, Iwona Blazwick, Jack Bankowsky, David Joselit, Paul Chan, John Kelsey, Allan McCollum, Lucy Raven, Amy Sillman, Steven Stern.
Published by Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College/Whitechapel Gallery/Portikus

Rachel Harrison (born 1966) is one of the most exciting artists making sculptures today. Her assemblages of found and constructed objects carry a provisional quality, a wry sense of humor and an all-embracing intelligence. Playing with materials ranging from plinth, pedestal and corrugated cardboard to plastic ketchup bottles, insulated travel mugs and Barbie's wheelchair-bound friend, Harrison creates colorful, canny, thought-provoking constructions that are worthy peers of Rauschenberg's Combines. This volume, the most comprehensive monograph of Harrison's sculpture, video and painting to date, provides documentation of the past 15 years of her work and includes essays by Tom Eccles, David Joselit, Iwona Blazwick and Jack Bankowsky, plus contributions from Paul Chan, John Kelsey, Allan McCollum, Lucy Raven, Amy Sillman and Steven Stern.

Rachel Harrison: If I Did It

Edited by Heike Munder. Text by Ellen Seifermann, John Kelsey, Heike Munde.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Gracing the cover jacket of Rachel Harrison's highly anticipated second monograph is an informal monument to the man who holds the Americas' namesake. The only hint to this memorial for the 15th century Italian explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, is an apple resting on an outcropping of neon-green cement; of course the fact that the apple is not only artificial but has a bite taken out of it suggests otherwise to the discovery of these "Edenic" continents. This slight yet important fact raises the basic conceit of if i did it: the active disavowal of art's political function as a museological testament to the "progress" of social history. By tossing off this monumental propensity, Harrison builds "antimonuments;" not so much sculptures but lumpen aggregates of pop psychology. In addition to Vespucci, throughout the book, one finds that celebrities Johnny Depp and Tiger Woods are included in a pantheon with John Locke and 18th century Corsican revolutionary Pasquale Paoli, meanwhile Al Gore checks the temperature, Claude Levi-Strauss checks the door with a taxidermied hen and rooster and a bi-curious Alexander the Great is the master of ceremonies. The title, taken from O.J. Simpson's infamous "hypothetical" account of his murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Donald Goldman, groups this role call of high- and low- brow idols into a nonhierarchical tableau where cultural and political value are allotted only where one sees fit.

Rachel Harrison: Currents 30

Milwaukee Art Museum

Essays by Stefano Basilico, Gareth James and John Kelsey. Foreword by David Gordon.
Published by Milwaukee Art Museum

Brooklyn-based artist Rachel Harrison examines the condition of looking, wanting and having via works and installations that hybridize the sculptural, the painterly and the photographic. With a finely tuned balance of sharp wit, wry sympathy and sensitive insight, she layers unusual materials into a whole. Currents 30 combines an exhibition catalogue with various artist projects.

The Help, A Companion Guide eBook

Published by Badlands Unlimited

The Help, A Companion Guide is based on images surrounding Rachel Harrison's 2012 solo show at Greene Naftali Gallery entitled The Help. The exhibition shares its title with Harrison’s photograph of the back door maintenance entrance to Duchamp’s "Étant donnés," which is visible in the exhibition galleries of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and alludes to the entangled roles of the Artist, the Muse and the Help. The Help, A Companion Guide showcases visual and conceptual elements that Harrison used in the making of The Help: from early Google image searches and reference materials, to documentation of the installation process and its attendant "help," to selected details of the final sculptural works. Harrison creates visual and temporal rhymes that playfully link her finished sculptural works to a constellation of materials and services that express the immanent sociality at stake in every work of art.