Studies for "Smoke Break 2 (Plasterer)": Boombox and Box of Tapes

"Though he is commonly described as a Conceptual artist and his systematic, research-oriented methods often resemble those found in Conceptual art, his singularity entwined artistic and intellectual pursuits have given rise to an oeuvre whose scope is considerably wider...Through several distinct series, his oeuvre loops back upon itself, restating structural devices and themes that borrow from a range on nineteenth-century scientific experiments and twenty-century pop culture, as well as from the literary innovations and artistic legacy of modernism."
J. Bradley, Rodney Graham: A Little Thought, exh. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 2004, p. 17.