Conrad Bakker Is UTC Diane Marek Series Visiting Artist Feb. 6-9

  • Monday, January 30, 2017
Conrad Bakker
Conrad Bakker

The Cress Gallery of Art at UTC will present Conrad Bakker, the Spring 2017 UTC Diane Marek Series visiting artist, Feb. 6-9. 

There will be an artist's lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 5:30 p.m.  at 201 Derthick Hall, 624 Vine St., followed by an opening reception in the lobby of the Fine Arts Center, 752 Vine St. 

Mr. Bakker appears in association with his exhibition featuring two ongoing bodies of work: Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library and Book Club and Untitled Project: The Crystal Land.  The exhibition dates are Feb. 7-March 22. 

In Gallery II are UTC Department of Art 2016-2017 Lillian B. Feinstein Scholarship Recipients: Mirel Crumb and Emaleigh Grantz. 

The Gallery and all events are open to the public; admission is free.  Gallery hours are 9:30 a.m.–7:30 p.m., Monday-Friday and 1-4 p.m. on the weekends.  

Mr. Bakker makes carved and painted sculptures of everyday objects and positions them in a wide variety of contexts to reveal and critically comment upon the political economies and relational networks between persons and things. This exhibition features two ongoing bodies of work, Untitled Project: Robert Smithson Library & Book Club and Untitled Project: The Crystal Land both based on the personal library and geologic interests of the late, conceptual artist and land art pioneer, Robert Smithson. 

Currently a professor of Art at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champagne, Mr. Bakker received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mi., and a Master of Fine Arts from Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. Among his awards are grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, The Illinois Arts Council, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. His work has been the subject of articles and reviews in publications such as Frieze, Contemporary, Flash Art, Art Forum, ArtUS, Art Papers, Sculpture, UOVO, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and the New Yorker magazine.

Over the past two decades Mr. Bakker’s work has been shown in numerable exhibitions including those at the Tate Modern (London), Galerie Analix Forever (Geneva), Farbfabriken Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture (Stockholm), the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York City), the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago; Art in General, Artist’s Space, and Apex Art (all New York City), Lora Reynolds Gallery (Austin, Tx.), the Contemporary Art Museum Houston, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, in mailboxes everywhere, and on his own front lawn. 

For more information about the Cress and Diane Marek Series: visit www.cressgallery.org or contact the director/curator by email at ruth-grover@utc.edu or call 304-9789. 

If requiring accommodations for this event, contact the UTC Department of Art at 425-4178 or email Patricia-Kelley@utc.edu or contact the UTC Disability Resource Center at 425-4006, email Michelle-Rigler@utc.edu. 

The Cress is n the lobby of the UTC Fine Arts Center, 752 Vine St., corner of Vine and Palmetto Streets. 

Parking: after 5 p.m. on weekdays and all day on weekends, visitors to the Cress may park free in any nearby lot not marked “24 hour reserved”. Before 5 p.m. on weekdays, visitors may find limited nearby street parking or park in the 5th Street Garage near MacKenzie Arena for a $4 fee and stroll across campus to Vine St. or ride the circulating campus CARTA shuttle from the 5th St. stop to the Vine and Palmetto stop. For more information about parking visit www.cressgallery.org.

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