Conrad Bakker, a Champaign-Urbana artist, has just launched a new aspect of his Untitled Projects as part of the 2005 DePauw Biennial at the Richard E. Peeler Art Center. Conrad created roughly 40 small paintings based upon eBay auction photographs of postcards that was sold from Indiana. The painted reproductions are sized and priced according to the original eBay images and auctions (approx. 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches).

Every day during the month of March and April, a painting will be put up for for a 3 day auction on eBay in the postcard category. As the paintings/postcards are sold, they will be shipped from the Peeler Art Center at DePauw University to the highest bidder as a simulated/genuine souvenir from Indiana. Any paintings/postcards that are not sold will remain part of the 2005 DePauw Biennial exhibition and will not be re-listed.

I suggest that you keep a close eye on them , but if any of you touch the Bear or the Star Trek postcards, I will find you.

Here are the links to the first ten auctions (if it’s crossed-out, the auction has passed and it’s time to count your losses and move on to bigger and better things).

• 03.01.05 / “Staten Island Ferry Statue Liberty 1980’s color postcard”
• 03.02.05 / “Vintage 1967 POSTCARD Chicago Wrigley Building Photo”
• 03.03.05 / “Old Vintage Ferris Wheel Postcard PC Vienna 1900 NR!!!”
• 03.04.05 / “mint NORTH AMERICAN P-51 D. Mustang postcard”
• 03.05.05 / “POSTCARD PHOTO OLD AQUAMAIDS OF CYPRESS GARDENS FLORIDA”
• 03.06.05 / “Vintage Postcard Santa Fe Chief railroad train photos 2”
• 03.07.05 / “2 VICTORIAN VINTAGE ANTIQUE CAT POSTCARDS COLOR CATS !!”
• 03.08.05 / “Jack Dempsey Autograph/Signed/Auto’d Postcard”
• 03.09.05 / “Vintage Postcard Kennedy JFK, Palm beach real photo !!”
• 03.10.05 / “Indy 500 Panoramic Postcard 1910”

View all items for sale by Untitled Projects.

More information and links regarding this project as well as information on other ongoing Untitled Projects can be found at: http://www.untitledprojects.com