crazy for rachel

if the apocalypse were to happen today Rachel Harrison would be in the streets scavenging for sculptural fodder. i think that's what excites me about her work. she has completely convinced me that grotesquely-painted polystyrene forms and debris from our commercial culture go together like tires and stuffed goats. http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ENS-rauschenberg/ENS-rauschenberg.htm
maybe she is just the Robert Rauschenberg of her generation and maybe that's just what her generation needs. my generation needs. we all may need. she's 42, by the way and not necessarily so new to the art world's mainstream. She's had solo shows at both the Milwaukee Museum of Art and the SFMOMA in the early 00's. I have heard from a personal source that she is a force to be reckoned with. By that, i mean that she is fierce about her choices with her work and most likely wouldn't take well to a curator's constructive criticism. In New York her work can be seen in the New Museum's inaugural show Unmonumental, in Two Years at the Whitney and in some corner of the MOMA, i don't remember where.