Untitled Project: Costco [Orchid], Oil paint on carved maple, 1:1 scale, 2024 >> Upon visiting Costco for the first time and in the stupor of warehouse shopping and considering objects/products...| Tumblr
UNTITLED PROJECT: SMITHSON’S BOOKS, Oil/enamel paint on carved wood, installed, 2021 >> Untitled Project: Smithson’s Books is an iteration ofUntitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club in the form of a used book store that is opening soon and/or going out of business –– installed in the storefront windows of the Famous Hardware building in Springdale, Arkansas from November 2021 thru February 2022.| >> Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects
UNTITLED PROJECT: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] [L’Atelier] [Le Journal] @ Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland, 2021 >> Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie is comprised of three connecting parts: La Boutique, L’Atelier, and Le Journal (The Store, The Workshop, and The Newspaper). Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie [La Boutique] is a storefront/art installation in Geneva, Switzerland, featuring hundreds of carved and painted sculptures of Swiss-branded chocolate bars, based on spe...| >> Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects
Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] >> Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2021. >> Untitled Project: Hi-Touch [VHS] is a made-to-order, digital-to-analog conversion service designed to turn one of your favorite digital videos, smartphone films, YouTube hits, animated gifs, kitten vlogs, tween Tik-Toks, vintage vines, social media captures, or conceptual art videos, into a hand-carved, hand-painted VHS videocassette tape sculpture! link to project website: https://untitledprojects...| >> Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects
Untitled Project: Sign [Blockbuster] >> Oil paint on carved wood, 2.6ft x 6.2ft x 12.3ft, 2021 >> Untitled Project: SIGN [Blockbuster] is a carved and painted Blockbuster Video store sign as a crashed/grounded event. This sculptural depiction of a once popular, now defunct video rental chain is intended to function as a nostalgic platform for thinking critically about our physical relationship to both movies and corporations.| >> Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects
Untitled Project: Amazon Delivery Confirmation [May 22 / June 18 / July 02 / August 03 / September 11 / October 02 / November 05 / December 29 / January 05], Oil paint on wood panel(s), each 7 x 5 x ½ inches, 2021 >> Untitled Project: Amazon Delivery Confirmation is a collection of small paintings documenting patterns of consumption of goods and services in 2020, during the months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Each painting is based on an ephemeral ‘proof of delivery’ image taken a...| >> Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects
UNTITLED PROJECT: MOUNTAIN/ROCK SHOP, Oil paint on carved wood, 2019 >> Untitled Project: Mountain/Rock Shop is an investigation of a particular place through objects and images — in particular, hand-carved and painted rocks based on real rocks collected in and around Sun Valley, Idaho during the summer 2019. All of these rocks have been constructed as contemplative objects—specific things that are slowly seen and/or held in order to help one connect to a knowledge of another thing. Al...| >> Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects
Untitled Project: Smartphone [#CRACKEDSCREEN] >> Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2019-2020. >> Untitled Project: Smartphone [#CRACKEDSCREEN] is a series of carved and painted sculptures of damaged smartphones with affected screens — a subtle critique of the dependence on the technology of handheld screens as a primary interface for engaging the world. These painted sculptures of defunct devices are themselves awkward representations that fall apart visually upon closer insp...| >> Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects