Art in Review; Jason Rhoades -- 'Meccatuna'

The most memorable show in a while by this excessive slacker bricolagist and techno-installation provocateur picks up testosterone-charged themes and materials he has previously explored.

What he calls PeaRoeFoam consists of dried peas, salmon roe and packaging foam pellets. Among what sprawls through several rooms here are sculptures made of PeaRoeFoam and Ivory Snow detergent boxes.

There are also 1,000 Lego ''Creator'' boxes, each containing 1,000 Lego pieces, totaling one million pieces; five enlarged casts of a petrified camel toe bone found in Florida, which Mr. Rhoades purchased on eBay; various painted automobile tires from a previous installation by Mr. Rhoades; several beat-up donkey carts he acquired in Guadalajara, Mexico; a Honda 2003 XR50 motorcycle; chrome shelves; folding tables; 48 cans of Geisha tuna from Saudi Arabia; 600 small ceramic donkeys with donkey carts; a pile of 20 vintage footstools made from camel saddles; 5 life-size fiberglass casts of donkeys; and several of what Mr. Rhoades calls ''Mecca vulvas,'' which are aluminum casts he designed in the shape of the mount that holds the Black Stone to a corner of the Kaaba, or holy shrine, at Mecca.

Encircling the upper reaches of the walls, like calligraphy in Islamic architecture, and piled on pallets are hundreds of colored neon signs bearing deranged or naughty euphemisms for vagina, continuing the misogynist theme.

A female employee of the gallery has been spending eight hours a day atop scaffolding since the show opened, patiently constructing a one-third-scale model of the Kaaba, which is to say an immense cube, out of all those little Lego pieces.

New world battles old, West battles East. Sex and religion, crudely blended, make an incendiary cocktail, which Mr. Rhoades cheerfully serves up as festive comic spectacle, as if begging for a fight, while suggesting a purely aesthetic motif in the formal comparison of the Minimalist Kaaba to Minimalist sculpture, both as objects of reverence. The results are anything but minimal, and oddly diverting.