Generally focusing her work on sociopolitical subjects, Marlene McCarty is both an artist and a commercial designer. In 1989, she founded the design studio Bureau, where, among other design projects, she devised film titles for such movies as American Psycho, Far from Heaven, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Ice Storm, and Velvet Goldmine. Her noncommercial art explores such topics as sexuality, obscenity, and the violence inherent in everyday familial relationships. In one long-running project, she collected news accounts of murder-committing teenage girls and assembled large-scale portraits in graphite and ballpoint pen based on them. Venues at which she has had solo exhibitions include Metro Pictures, Bronwyn Keenan, and Sikkema Jenkins & Co in New York City. Group exhibitions include such venues as El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Secession in Vienna, and Galerie Nosbaum & Reding in Luxembourg. In 2002–2003, McCarty received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has taught at such institutions as New York University, Yale University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Cooper Union.

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