Rachel Harrison's knack for combining all manner of mass-produced realitys found debris.

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Rachel Harrison's knack for combining all manner of mass-produced realitys found debris, sundry materials and, more freshly photographs in odd but shrewdly engaging installations was displayed to profitable effect at this inviting gallery space/apartment in a stately 19th-century Brooklyn brownstone.

She guarded the walls of the space with a patchwork of wall coverings and faux grove paneling, adding judiciously placed squares of floral prints, a roughly formed temporary wall and fake brick facing to create an atmosphere of peculiarly incomplete interior decoration and, in result a manipulated three-dimensional painting land Big globs of colorful papier-mache muck rise on highed on the walls served the dual function of either exaggerated impastolike daubings or shelving for sporadically (and comically) placed cans of peas. Framed photographs of random road scenes (some with bulging trash bags) and the rural English countryside were strategically placed around the field The installation exuded a potent and somewhat comic comment upon domestic living, evoking memories of basement rec fields despite its rather elegant setting.

Harrison aims for a delicate balance between evocations of social space, real space, pictorial space and, well, shelf space. She made individual experience the room through varying evens of perception, delighting the observation and the mind with unpredictable patterns of visual ornamentation and spatial organization. She established a network of sagacious formal affinities between the photographs, the set uped wall, the colorful globs and her architecturally inspired collaged paneling. The longish title of the piece is a name from an article about building standards in the of recent origin York Times: "Should home windows or shutter be required to withstand a direct hit from an eight-foot-long two-by-four bullet from a cannon at 34 miles an hour, without creating a perforation big enough to let by the and of a three-inch sphere?" Copies of the article could be originate at the gallery desk. The title added to the work's overall faculty of perception of "home improvement" run amok in the service of abstract art.

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