third kind

Collaborated with Dan Foley on a project for Leslie-Lohman Museum’s digital Pride celebration: Lockdown Loft. Our prompt was “…riffing on the idea of the online beauty tutorial, but are interested in all things bathroom, self-care, get ready with me, make-up, curated YouTube playlists, etc.”
Bon Bon

Bon Bon Paracord, wood, sculpy, faux flowers, gold chain 2019 Featured in Fleisher Ollman Gallery’s Mending and Repair in Response Fleisher Ollman Website
Tender Buttons

By Jesse Harrod Sound by Dan Foley + Iris Devins “What’s Your Name?” – Written and Performed by Cousins Dedicated to Joseph Yoakum + Eugene Von Bruenchenhein   Featured in Mending and Repair in Response at Fleisher Ollman Gallery (PHL)
Sac River

Sac River Paracord, Aluminum 2019
Hatch

Hatch is a site-specific installation by artist Jesse Harrod. A previous iteration of this installation was originally conceptualized during their Fellowship at the Socrates Sculpture Park in New York. For this installation, Harrod hand knotted paracord—a material commonly used to mark a path on a […]
Mending and Repair in Response

Jesse Harrod & Lisi Raskin: Mending and Repair in Response Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, September 13–October 26, 2019 Fleisher/Ollman proudly presents Mending and Repair in Response, Jesse Harrod and Lisi Raskin’s first collaborative project spanning an ongoing artistic conversation begun in 2015. In taking up this conversation […]
Von Bon

Von Bon Paracord, Aluminum 2019  
Monz

Featured in Mending and Repair in Response at Fleisher Ollman Gallery (PHL) Monz 1 Cotton, Acrylic, Aluminum 2019 Monz 2 Cotton, Acrylic, Aluminum 2019 Monz 3 Cotton, Acrylic, Aluminum 2019 Monz 4 Cotton, Acrylic, Aluminum 2019 Monz 5 Cotton, Acrylic, Aluminum 2019 Monz 6 Cotton, […]
Sacs

Sacs Metal, Paracord 2019
Lapping

Lapping Paracord, Aluminum 2019
Physical Form

While colour has always played an active role in my sculptural works, in these new works I aim to utilize color as a conceptual tool to explore how physical form, and particularly forms of gendered embodiment, are made and remade through perception. Untitled Paracord, Aluminum […]
Operator

Operator A sad and immobile penis dwells alone on a hillside, disembodied; or perhaps so embodied it requires no surrogate. Singing “Operator” by Jim Croce, the penis references the strap-on, that interchangeable cock used as part of queer sexual practices. Has this cock been discarded for […]
Wonder Twins

Wonder Twins Jesse Harrod asked Lisi Raskin a question about the relationship between color and affect. This tongue in cheek prompt (that Raskin couldn’t help but take at face value,) generated a four-minute sound file that Harrod “interpreted” through a series of drawings that playfully and respectfully take the piss out […]
How Does it Feel?

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Toxic Shock and the Hot Dog

Toxic Shock and the Hotdog, Solo Show at Vox Populi 2016   Toxic Shock and the Hotdog, Solo Show at Vox Populi 2016   Toxic Shock and the Hotdog, Solo Show at Vox Populi 2016
Queer Threads

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Found Rope

Friendship Bracelete Found Rope on Plexiglass 2015 Friendship Bracelete Found Rope on Plexiglass 2015 Found Rope on Plexiglass Found Rope on Plexiglass Found Rope on Plexiglass
Intended

Intended, Fab Gallery Richmond Virginia 2014
The Stench of Rotting Flowers — Charlotte Street (Kansas City, MO)

The Stench of Rotting Flowers. The Charlotte Street Foundation’s la Esquina gallery Kansas City, MO 2014   The Stench of Rotting Flowers. The Charlotte Street Foundation’s la Esquina gallery Kansas City, MO 2014  
Artist Statement

Artist Statement underscores the erotic tensions and sensual feelings that pervade our relations with quotidian objects and devices. Bringing together many of the questions touched upon across my artistic practice, Artist Statement registers the pleasures of hapticity and the ways in which objects and material […]
New Drawings

Many of my works on paper “let it all hang out.”
Portraits

These portraits feature cisgender men who have damaged or distorted my sense of self worth. By rendering these men in a manner that emphasizes their absurdity and impotence (both sexual and otherwise), I intend to creatively excise their emotional impact upon my mind and body.
Low Ropes Course

Low Ropes Course,  Solo Show. NurtureArt Gallery NYC, 2015   Low Ropes Course,  Solo Show. NurtureArt Gallery NYC, 2015   Purchase Low Ropes Course Low Ropes Course documents some of Harrods recent work, the queerness, Maximalist aesthetics, and feminist politics that inform Harrod’s work are […]
Passing Fancies

From a cursory examination of any department store, it is clear that cotton dominates the production of clothing and home goods. At one time, however, linen played this role. In the popular imagination linen now has connotations with luxury, fragility, and delicacy, despite the strength […]
Taught Tight Tender Sway – SculptureCenter 2017

Taught Tight Tender Sway, commissioned for the SculptureCenter in New York, extends my engagement with hanging and suspended abstract bodily forms characteristic of works such as Rangers, Mascots, and Hung, and scales these forms up to the level of architecture and environment. In response to […]
Hung

This piece took many years to complete. Hung is a limp and bulky phallus wound in a protective cocoon of orange paracord that humorously comments on the idea of being “well hung.” At the same time, the sculpture references both Louise Bourgeois’ Fillette (Sweeter Version) […]
Mascots

The overlapping multi-colored knots that construct Mascots I and II form a series of amorphous, indeterminate orifice-body assemblages. Mascot 1 2016 Mascot 2 2016
Rangers

This series consists of individual welded and power-coated frames with netted paracord that are assembled together into a large-scale modular installation to create a wall of leaning “bodies.” Suspended between the organic and the artificial, these works draw on plant morphologies to explore ideas of […]
Vagina Touchers

A large-scale sculpture that doubles as a wall that supports a series of posters for a fictitious band called Vagina ToucHers. Layering the faux upon the fictitious, Harrod’s installation highlights the blur between surface and depth, enacting and unworking the relationship between supporting structure and […]
Drawings

Lesbian Agenda 2016 Lavender Menace, 2015 Lavender Menace, Detail, 2015 Bodies 2016 Sheila could draw a horse, 2015 Detail – Sheila could draw a horse, 2015 Sausage Fest, 2015 My Muffin. 2015 Meatball Sub. 2016 If I had Three Vaginas. 2015 Their Streams Crossed. 2015
Beads

Engaging more directly with the absurdity of sexual prosthetics, the testicular-like forms in this work are left, quite literally, hanging in the absence of a phallus to support. Beads. Paracord, blown glass balls, metal 2015 Beads. detail Paracord, blown glass balls, metal 2015 Pink. 2014 […]
Floats

While living in Chicago, I made a series of small parade floats; these were inspired by an early morning run on the day of a large LGBTQ Pride parade where I encountered a series of empty floats traveling to the parade site. The streets were […]
Pensile Arrangements

Much of my work explores the sexual prosthetics of queer, and particularly lesbian, sexuality and the malleability of phallic and labial forms. Constructed from paracord – a strong nylon rope popular within the military and the BDSM community – embellished with cock rings and beads, […]