"To spend a few minutes with the staff at the New York location of Matthew Brown Gallery these days, talking about how the current show, Darren Bader's "Youth," came together, is to be regaled with tales that sound too unlikely to be true. That's the way it often goes with the New York conceptual artist, whose works explore truly absurd territory. They may seem like jokes, but at least to me, they often open up the mind to a sense of wonder that leaves them resonating far beyond the initial gag."
"The fabrication of the simplest pieces created surprising challenges. For example, one group of Bader works consists of an "A on B" format; an example in this show has a mound of fruit spread, placed on a 1986 Stephen King horror novel centered on a villain that goes by a simple pronoun: jam on It. Those three words, of course, make up the title of a 1984 hip-hop hit by Brooklyn troupe Newcleus. It turns out that even in New York, jam is a hard food to find, said Eisenberg. (Nota bene: Bader does not assign dates to his works.)"
""In questioning what the limits/defiinition of sculpture could be.""
Matthew Brown Gallery in New York presents Darren Bader's exhibition 'Youth,' featuring conceptual works that employ absurd juxtapositions and everyday or edible materials. Simple-seeming pieces required complex fabrication and sourcing, exemplified by a work titled 'jam on It' that places fruit spread on a Stephen King novel. Past projects have placed named foodstuffs directly in gallery settings. Bader has exhibited internationally with respected dealers and received a Calder Foundation prize in 2013. The practice interrogates conventional boundaries of sculpture by foregrounding context, language, and the incidental or performative status of objects.
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