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The botanical imagery of this New York artist's transfixing large- scale drawings, rendered with gossamer menace in pencil and ballpoint pen, spill into three dimensions in her new exhibition at the Sikkema Jenkins gallery, titled "Into the Weeds: Sex & Death."
Artforum has invited artists to share a text, image, or video in the immediate wake of the United States presidential election and will be posting their contributions throughout the next week.
There is a craft to the installation of exhibitions. When unpacking large paper works that have been transported rolled, gallery staff lay them out on flat, clean surfaces for some days, to let the fibers of the paper relax, before preparing them for hanging.
Die Ausstellung ‹Into the Weeds› ist eine Erfahrung von direkter und unmittelbar desillusionierter Wirklichkeit und zugleich eine Einladung in eine fantastische, fantasievolle Welt. Der Blick der Künstlerin Marlene McCarty reicht von der exakt-reellen Oberfläche eines Motivs bis tief hinein in die menschlichen Abgründe unserer Gesellschaft.
Marlene McCarty: Into the Weeds
“Trouble has to happen,” Marlene McCarty tells me. “And then people grow out of that. Things change, and then new growth happens.” She is talking about how to affect lasting institutional change, something that, as an artist and activist, she’s been after for many years.
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Die giftige Wirkung der Realität
Das Kunsthaus Baselland zeigt Arbeiten der US-Künstlerin und Choreografin Simone Forti und des jungen Berliners Björn Braun. Mithilfe von Tanz- und Naturkräften versuchen sie gängige Codes zu brechen.
2020 exhibition program - Announcements - e-flux
Marlene McCarty Christoph Oertli Solo Position: Stefan Karrer January 24-April 19 Opening: January 23, 6:30pm One of the most comprehensive presentations in Switzerland to date of the New York-based artist Marlene McCarty (b. 1957 in Lexington/KY, USA/CH), who studied in Basel from the late 1970s to the early 1980s.
Marlene McCarty | Kunsthaus Baselland | Artsy
Current show at Kunsthaus Baselland Muttenz, St. Jakob-Strasse 170 Jan 24th - Apr 19th
Marlene McCarty: Ich habe einen neuen Glauben an die Macht der Kunst
In der aktuellen Ausstellung Into The Weeds zeigt die New Yorker Künstlerin Pflanzen die heilen und solche die töten. Auch die grossformatigen Zeichnungen werfen eindringliche Fragen auf, zu sehen ab heute im Kunsthaus Baselland. von Mirco Kaempf Unsere Gesellschaft ist wie ein Dickicht von Gift und Heilpflanzen.
What Modernism Learned from the World's First Grain Elevator
'Everything else so far now seemed to have been shaped interim to my silo dreams,' Erich Mendelsohn wrote to his wife in 1924. 'Everything else was mere beginning.' The German architect was perched at a bend in the Buffalo River, in upstate New York, grain elevators towering over him.
Poisonous plants focus of multi-faceted project
Campus News UBNOW STAFF "Marlene McCarty: Into the Weeds," a multi-faceted project in which the Brooklyn-based artist uses plants to affirm ways to not only survive but thrive in toxic conditions, opens Oct. 3 in the UB Art Galleries in the Center for the Arts, North Campus, and on Oct.
Marlene McCarty, Anabolic Steroids, Corn Cob... - Cornelia Magazine
Marlene McCarty's exhibition Into the Weeds at UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts contains eight ballpoint pen and graphite drawings, fifteen species of plants, and a dramatic change to the layout of the space: the audience must first pass through a newly built drywall entryway and traverse a hall lined on one side with weeds in planters lit by an ultraviolet glow before finally arriving into the rotunda, where a variety of plants (all labeled by species and their status as "poisonous") grow in a circular steel enclosure.
Marlene McCarty's mammoth, unframed drawings of homicide and hellfire occupy two smaller spaces in the back of this gallery. Both multipart works on display-one of Patty Columbo (guilty of familicide at only nineteen years old) and another, of the China Camp site in San Rafael, California (where sixteen-year-old Marlene Olive and her boyfriend burned the bodies of her adoptive parents)-hug the gallery walls.
Disturbing Portraits of Girls Who Murdered Their Mothers Resist Moral Takeaways
Marlene McCarty's Murder Girls series does not give us the satisfaction of a neatly wrapped moral or a happy ending, nor does the artist attempt to rationalize the girls' actions or to vilify them.
A discussion of power: a conversation with Marlene McCarty
Nearly a year ago Hank Willis Thomas told me in a phone conversation that "all art is political." This was before the election, and his efforts both in his own work and especially within his artist-run super-PAC For Freedoms were focused on getting citizens involved. He was and is right.
Making Cutting-Edge Art with Ballpoint Pens
Last August, Toyin Odutola brought a stack of ballpoint pens and markers into the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, sat down, and drew a picture. A large screen projected her progress as she filled the paper with thousands of marks. Museumgoers circled around her and asked her questions.
Sex and Death: Interview with Marlene McCarty | ArtSlant
McCarty began investigating true crime tales of matricide when Tom Kalin, a fellow member of Grand Fury, compared her work's power to the bewitching pull ascribed to Marlene Olive. In 1975, Olive compelled her boyfriend to kill her parents.
Marlene McCarty - What Lies Between the Lines
Sunday, September 16, 2012 PUSSY - BEAVER - CUNT. This was the first I remember of Marlene McCarty's art- words, shocking ones at that, the sort of language hurled at women on the street, the words used to take power and show who has it.