Untitled Project: Reddit [whatisit?], Oil paint on wood panel, 8 x 10 x ¾ inches, 2025 >> A series of paintings based on user images posted to reddit asking for identification or explanation of something that is represented in the image.| >> Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects
Untitled Project: Bulletin Board [Postcard], Oil paint on carved wood, 2024, dimensions: 24 x 18 x 1.5 inches >> a carved/painted personal bulletin board, with pinned postcard of Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. Untitled Project: Bulletin Board, Oil paint on carved wood, 2018, 42 x 72 x 1.5 inches >> a carved and painted institutional bulletin board, whose contents have all but been removed, leaving behind the detritus of papered announcements.| >> Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects
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
Conrad Bakker Untitled Project: << Le Bouquiniste >> Oil paint on carved wood, 2024 Open Studios @ Cité international des arts, Paris Wednesday, May 29, 2024 from 6-9pm If you are in Paris this week,...| Tumblr
Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf [International Objects], Oil paint on carved wood, installed, 2024 >> an expanded iteration of Untitled Project: Still Life /Style Leaf through a series of sculptures in the exhibition “Extra Taste” at International Objects in Brooklyn, New York. These carved and painted facsimiles are repetitions first in that they are copies of the real. However, these things generate a second repetition once they are installed in the context of the exhibitio...| >> Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects
UNTITLED PROJECT: ROBERT SMITHSON LIBRARY & BOOK CLUB, Oil paint on carved wood, dimensions variable, 2014—2019 >> Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club consists of carved and painted book/sculptures based on the titles from the personal library of conceptual artist and land art pioneer Robert Smithson. Smithson’s personal library is notable in that his titles reveal a wide range of subjects, providing a unique window into his research and practice—and also functioning ...| >> Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects
Untitled Project: Poster [Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles - Un film de Chantal Akerman], Oil paint on carved wood, 48 x 34 x 1 ½ inches, 2023 >> a hand-carved and painted wood sculpture based on the original film poster of Chantal Akerman’s “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles,” one of the ‘greatest films of all time’ and an amazing cinematic meditation on time, duration, and the everyday. This artwork, a hand-made thing, exists in relationship to ...| >> Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects
Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls], Oil paint on carved wood, 2022 – @ SHED /New Orleans >> Untitled Project: Climate Economies [Souvenirs, Supplies, & Sno-Balls] was an examination of consumer objects and behaviors related to climate change and natural disasters in New Orleans, Louisiana. Featuring carved and painted wood sculptures of hurricane supplies and souvenirs as well as double-sided paintings of shaved ice treats (sno-balls) paired with...| >> Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects
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: LA CHOCOLATERIE [La Boutique] >> is a store front commercial space featuring hundreds of carved and painted, Swiss-branded chocolate bars. These chocolate bar sculptures were for sale (cash and carry) at the price of 100 CHF, an amount roughly equivalent to one months wages for the average cocoa farmer working in the Côte d'Ivoire, Africa. The visual archive of all of the carved and painted chocolate bars can be found here: https://lachocolaterielaboutique.tumblr.com| >> Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects
Untitled Project: La Chocolaterie [Le Journal] is a free, full-color, printed newspaper featuring digital drawings of headlines+images based on online news and economic data concerning the complex relationship between the chocolate industrial complex and cocoa production on the ground. website pdf| >> Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects
UNTITLED PROJECT: LA SOCIÉTÉ DU SPECTACLE, Oil paint on carved wood, 2021 >> a carved and painted book/sculpture of Guy Debord’s seminal text, The Society of the Spectacle, based on a highly-collectible, first-edition copy from 1967. This book/sculpture was specifically made for and given to the artist Frank Perrin after several conversations about books, capitalism, and Guy Debord.| >> 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: BLOCKBUSTER [ THE CORPORATION ], oil paint on carved wood, 2006/2020 >> a carved and painted Blockbuster video store shopping bag holding a rental DVD of the documentary film The Corporation. This visual conflation of these entities points to the immutable relationship between the critique of corporate capitalism and its consumption.| >> 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: Twitter Marginalia [Adrienne Rich] [My heart is moved by all I cannot save] >> Oil paint on wood panel, 21 ½ x 20 x ½ inches, 2019 Untitled Project: Twitter Marginalia [Etel Adnan] [There are moments when the past ceases to be a form of the present. Rain and tears Look alike.] >> Oil paint on wood panel, 5 x 7 x ½ inches, 2022 >> Untitled Project: Twitter Marginalia [Adrienne Rich] and Untitled Project: Twitter Marginalia [Etel Adnan] are paintings of images of ...| >> 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
