Marlene McCarty's Unorthodox Visions in Ballpoint Pen

The artist talks about her epic drawings, her work in the AIDS activism collective Gran Fury, and why plants may hold the key to taking back our bodies.

Marlene McCarty's Unorthodox Visions in Ballpoint Pen
Marlene McCarty with one of her drawings in her West 26 Street studio in 2001 (photo by Bruno Jakob, courtesy Marlene McCarty)