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One of the current exhibits at the Rose Art Museum is Tom Sachs's Logjam.  Sachs is a bricolage (do-it-yourself) artist, manufacturing objects out of ordinary materials like tape, cardboard, plywood, and foam core.  The exhibit features items used in his workshop, like a table saw incorporated into "Million Dollar Desk", a drill press titled "Outstanding Service Every Time" that incorporates tools used by his father and grandfather, and a "Resin Kit" built out of necessity to make it easier to work with industrial-grade resin.  Also featured are "Vader," a working refrigerator made out of plywood, glass, and metal; "Lav A2," a functional reproduction of an airplane lavatory made out of foam core and coated with resin; and "Nutsy's Tableau," a large-scale race track for racing Mini-Z remote controlled cars.  The track, used by Sachs and his assistants to relax after long days in the studio, has several stations throughout the course, including a repair station, music center, refrigerator stocked with beer, an "Altitude Generator" spiral ramp, a Weber grill transformed into a propane "Ring of Fire" for the cars to jump through.  Cameras throughout the course transmit scenes from the race to the "Wall of Surveillance," a giant wall of old television monitors.

Also on exhibit at the museum are Steve Miller's "Spiraling Inward" and "Tiger by the Tail!," videos by Indian female artists.

Steve Miller - Spiraling Inward

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