Marlene McCarty «Young Americans, Part 2», exhibition view, 2004. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Stefan Rohner.
Marlene McCarty, Melinda Loveless, Tone Lawrence, Hope Rippen, Laurie Tackett and Shande Sharer – January 11, 1992, 2004. Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Stefan Rohner.
Young Americans, Part 2
Marlene Mccarty
6 March–25 April 2004
With ballpoint pen and graphite Marlene McCarty draws portraits of young women on huge paper formats.The girls wear fashionable casual clothes and some of them are dressed sexy. The irritating presence of the images is based on one hand in their supernatural scale– the women are really huge – on the other hand in their sexual attributes shimmering through the clothes.
«Young Americans, Part 2» is an artistic portrait of a broken American youth in its literal sense.
The dates contained in the titels of Marlene McCarty`s work signifies the day when they killed or when they themselves became victims of a violent crime. The social tension of teenage opposition reaches its climax with a murder. McCarty draws the drama of adolescence, the conflict of desire and opposition.
Saturday, 6 July 2024, 6pm