Since the 1980’s Marlene McCarty’s artwork has challenged toxic masculinity and probed issues of sexual and social formation. Her artistic practice—from heat-transfer text paintings to monumental ballpoint drawings and poisonous garden installations—examines embedded patriarchal power structures. She was a core member of the AIDS activist collective Gran Fury, member of Women’s Action Coalition(WAC), and a cofounder of the transdisciplinary design studio Bureau. Recent work mines the millennia long plant/human relationship through drawings and earth works of deadly, hallucinogenic and abortifacient plants. Projects have been seen at the University at Buffalo, Kunsthaus Baselland (Basel), Last Tango(Zurich), Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (NYC), among many others.