Conrad Bakker “Untitled Project:The Crystal Land”

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Canadian born and Illinois based artist Conrad Bakker’s newest work: Untitled Project: The Crystal Land is an installation of sculpture as well as paintings of specific minerals listed in the famous Robert Smithson text The Crystal Land published in the May 1966 issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

Bakker’s paintings are based on online auction photographs, specifically images of rocks and minerals in the hands of their owners. These highly constructed pictures of tangible commodities engage an open model of Smithson’s site/nonsite dialectic to reveal shifting matters of concern between rock collecting and the global mining industry, geologic time and material properties, and internet economies and hand labor.

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from September 07, 2014 to October 05, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-09-07 from 17:00 to 21:00

Artist(s)

Conrad Bakker

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