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Cady Noland — metal basket, car parts, beer cans
Cady Noland

metal basket, car parts, beer cans

A chaotic assemblage of industrial detritus, Cady Noland brings together a metal basket, car parts, and crushed beer cans into a raw meditation on American consumer culture and its underbelly. The work channels Noland's signature preoccupation with violence, capitalism, and the wreckage left behind by the American Dream. Mundane objects become loaded symbols, evoking themes of mobility, excess, and social decay.

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Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale

March 6, 2014

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Cady Noland, metal basket, car parts, beer cans

A chaotic assemblage of industrial detritus, Cady Noland brings together a metal basket, car parts, and crushed beer cans into a raw meditation on American consumer culture and its underbelly. The work channels Noland's signature preoccupation with violence, capitalism, and the wreckage left behind by the American Dream. Mundane objects become loaded symbols, evoking themes of mobility, excess, and social decay.

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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Industrial, Assemblage, Bold, Conceptual, Metal, American, Car Parts, Mixed Media, Found Objects, Contemporary

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