“The Art of the Jewelry Box”

Cristina Grajales, 2025
A kinetic sculpture and light installation featuring a motorized, bedazzled pink plastic car with an interior labryinth of rooms containing Newtown Creek-soaked toys, and a pile of resin bricks



“The Last Time I’ll Use Plastic” 

Stephen Street Gallery, 2025
A solo installation and performance series exploring the omnipresent power of consumer culture. 



“Volumetric Rhinestone Lattice (Fractured Light Galaxy)” 

Secret location, 2025
A lattice cube embedded with crystals and attached to a custom slow-spinning motor creates a dazzling light installation in a storied underground Brooklyn venue.




“The Archaeology of Cute, the Monument of Pain” 

Accent Sisters, 2025
A large car with a TV in its hood, and mirror in its trunk, plays footage of American highways. Smaller cars modular cars and works on paper are also displayed.



“Fossil Chair”

Prop Haus NYC Time Capsule, 2025
Retrofuturism is evoked by staging the “Fossil Chair,” whose 200 toy cars cast in resin suggest a futuristic glacier, in Prop Haus NYC’s “Time Capsule” studio.



“Abscissa” 

Emily Harvey Foundation, 2024
An animated film and resin sculpture explore the landscape of suburban America.





*** Photography by Daniel Wang - dwangphoto.com ***



Wyatt Bertz is an artist using video, sculpture, design, and sound to examine the impact of consumer culture.