Park McArthur

New York-based artist Park McArthur works primarily in sculpture, sound and text.  In addition to her use of readymade industrial objects, McArthur is interested in objects that result from, what she describes as, “the work necessary for life,” work that is also known as reproductive labor or living labor. Objects of this nature featured in previous sculptures and installations include, the artist’s own pajamas, worn and altered by processes of care and sleep, as well as twenty temporary access ramps, made or purchased at McArthur’s request in order to enter and exit buildings by wheelchair. Less interested in the body as a sovereign unit than in the fleshiness of bodies that deny such a unit, McArthur asks what materiality has to do with flesh and what flesh has to do with absorption, and absorption’s sibling, expulsion.

Park McArthur’s solo exhibitions include Lars Friedrich, Berlin, Yale Union, Portland, Oregon and Essex Street, New York. Group exhibitions include Greater New York, PS1 MoMA, New York, Unorthodox, The Jewish Museum, New York, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Deborah Schamoni, Munich, The Kitchen, New York. Her first book, Beverly Buchanan, 1978 – 1981, co-edited with Jennifer Burris Staton, was published by Athénée Press in 2015.

Courtesy of Chisenhale Gallery