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Goings On About Town

Daniel Oates - Fanatically executed sculptures in different scales - from a few inches tall on up - depicting mindlessly happy workers. They are gender-segregated in pairs - Hank and Frank, Bella and Stella - and, except for their sexual coding, are surrealistic in every way, down to their hallucinatory craftsmanship. Of special interest are two huge uniforms with big bulbous shoes. They are monumental in aDisney sort of way.

  The New Yorker  
  December 21, 1992 (page 24)  

Goins On About Town

"True To Life" - There's a sense of suspended reality to the works in this oddly interesting show, such as Thomas Ruff's photograph of a markedly unpeopled residential street, Vito Acconci's model for a park bench in the form of a giant bra, and even Jurgen Meyer's simulated abstract painting. Introduced here are the earnest, kitschy "Happy Worker" dolls of Daniel Oates, which fall somewhere between Jeff Koons and Robert Gober.

  The New Yorker  
  August 5, 1991 (page 13)  

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