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Standing upright on marble plinths, Adam Parker Smith’s Sarcophagi are pointedly recognizable in their resemblance to sub-zero sleeping bags. Utilizing resin, steel, and urethane, Smith fashions familiar objects, are made to appear both inflated and dispensable. His sculptures, like Readymades, are instantly accessible and quietly satiric at first glance, even seeming to celebrate modern mass production as its own monolithic, uprooted culture. But, as with Duchamp, the deception of Smith’s objects become more apparent the longer one contemplates them.

Adam Parker Smith created STANDING ON THE …