80WSE is proud to present the first major survey of Marlene McCarty’s work. Curated by Michael Cohen, this exhibit will span from mural prints of McCarty’s 1980 stage-set designs for Swiss punk bands such as Lilliput and Mother’s Ruin; her dirty word heat transfer on canvas paintings; McCarty’s famed large-scale drawings of teen-age woman murderers; and selections from more recent multi-figure drawings dealing with primates and religion.

The survey seeks to make connections between McCarty’s conceptual work and Gran Fury actions and the subversive poly-sexuality and probing social questioning of her later oeuvre