DATA MINING
Wallspace
July 6 - August 5, 2006
Conrad Bakker
Jay Chung
Dora Garcia
Chris Moukarbel
Karen Reimer
Gerhard Richter
[The voice of] Robert Smithson
Donelle Woolford
CONRAD BAKKER makes sculptures that function as currency. Like money—which is a commonly held symbolic object representing exchangeable meanings and values—Bakker's wooden sculptures of folding tables, muscle cars, found objects and dumpsters are fiduciary stand-ins for the things they represent. Bakker often exacerbates his carefully whittled facsimiles by embedding them in the real world, a neo-Dadaist gesture that both highlights their ability to pass undetected and squanders their value as art. For the show at Wallspace, Bakker is displaying two standard office trash cans that have been whittled from single blocks of wood.
All works oil on wood
All works actual size
Links
www.untitledprojects.com
www.indymoca.org
www.renaissancesociety.org
