NAM JUNE PAIK (1932-2006)
Dharma Wheel Turns
signed and numbered 'PAIK 6/25' (on the reverse)
vinyl records, audio cassettes, cassette tape, headphones, television tubes, compact discs, television dials, painted wood and laserdisc
16 ¾ x 15 ½ x 11 ¾ in. (42.5 x 39.4 x 29.8 cm.)
Executed in 1990. This work is number six from an edition of twenty-five unique variants.

Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
Holly Solomon Collection, New York, 1999
By descent from the above to the present owner

Cincinnati, The Contemporary Arts Center; Peoria, Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts; Tacoma Art Museum; Jacksonville Museum of Art; Walnut Creek, Bedford Gallery; Phoenix Art Museum; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art; Miami, Lowe Art Museum; Milwaukee Art Museum; Arkansas Art Center; Fresno Metropolitan Museum and Austin Museum of Art, It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art, November 1995-April 1999, p. 153, pl. 42 (another example illustrated).

Known as one of the most important video artists of all time, Nam June Paik was a pioneer of digital media. Paik worked with a multitude of genres including video, performance, drawing and sculpture. In this work, the Korean-American artist nods his head to a Buddhist practice by titling the figure Dharma Wheel Turns. In keeping with Paik's nature, he fashions this work out of found digital materials to create a completely original piece of art.