Rachel Harrison in ‘Feedback’ at Marlborough Contemporary

Rachel Harrison’s heavily textured, expressionist painting is electrified by fuchsia shorts, a dramatic punctuation at the end of the artwork. The shorts drag a potentially intellectual AbExp artwork into the banality of everyday life; now, it’s not hard to imagine the artwork on its way to the beach or the mall. (In ‘Feedback’ at Marlborough Contemporary through August 11th).

Rachel Harrison, Painting in Shorts, wood, concrete, acrylic and polyester swim trunk, 33 x 21 x 4 inches, 2013.