Andrew Samuel Harrison


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“My tax dollars fund genocides, obliterated publics, toxic rains, starvation, too easily imaginable much too easily believable horror abroad and active fascism at home. My own labor barely creates comfort for me and my family. How is my chosen work of any use? My community compelled me to embody what role I take in experience, witness, resistance.”

Nonparticipation System
2026
Concrete, Steel, Foam
95 in. x 90 in. x 85 in.

created at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY (https://www.sculpturespace.org/)
exhibited with MAQET Artist Collective (maqet.substack.com)
photography by Shay Salehi

Image One Description:
Nonparticipation System installed within a sunlit gallery space. Three concrete forms derived from sidewalk and curb geometries rest upon a full-sized pale blue memory foam surface. Steel support structures stabilize several suspended prosthetic steel elements above and between the concrete forms. Natural light from the surrounding windows casts elongated shadows across the floor and sculpture.

Image Two Description:
Shot from beneath the highest element of the sculpture, a bent and curving steel prosthetic form is held aloft across two steel supports, balanced through points of contact rather than fixed attachment.

Image Three Description:
Detail shot of two sections of concrete forms resting upon a pale blue foam base. Thin, dark grey steel supports rise vertically from the concrete and balance two polished steel prosthetic forms at various heights. The concrete appears simultaneously weight-bearing and provisional against the softness of the foam beneath it.

Image Four Description:
A close view of the curved concrete form resting upon a pale blue perforated memory foam surface. The interior curve exposes a recessed section of foam beneath the concrete, while thin steel supports emerge vertically from the form. A softer, wrinkled concrete edge presses into the foam, compressing the surface beneath it.

Image Five Description:
A long concrete form angles downward from the memory foam surface onto the gallery floor. Inserted into the concrete is a steel prosthetic element extending horizontally before opening outward into bent steel prongs. The rough concrete surface contrasts with the polished steel and the soft perforated foam nearby.