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  1. Jawbreaker by Jason Adkins, Image 2.

    Jason Adkins

    Jawbreaker, 2008

    MDF-UL, oil lacquer, clear coat

    55 x 47 x 47 in

  2. We All Dream of Revenge by Jason Adkins, Image 1.

    Jason Adkins

    We All Dream of Revenge, 2008

    MDF-UL, oil lacquer, clear coat

    47 x 55 x 47 in

Adkins was born in Dover, New Jersey. In 2003 he received his MFA from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. The large, wooden sculptures that we show at the Barrick are a departure for Adkins, who has spent most of his career as an abstract painter. His canvases are often covered with bright, broad, swerving marks that appear to have been drawn rapidly across the surface, though he has also worked with hard-edged horizontal stripes. Jawbreaker and We All Dream of Revenge come from a series of box-shaped pieces that had their origins in the packing crates he saw around him at work. Kristen Peterson in the Las Vegas Weekly described a show of his related works as “a striking display of minimalism for an artist who began his career hating the movement” and compared the crates to the work of Sol LeWitt.