Retro-Futuristically Bland

• For those who don't recall Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner," the film cast human bounty hunters alongside their humanoid prey, cyborg "replicants," in bleak, futuristic Los Angeles. Though artist David Jung takes the film as inspiration, you won't need my synopsis to decipher "Maker Day," his disappointing show of electronic installations and paintings at Numark. That's because Jung's bland works do little to recall the film, and they lack its creepy intelligence. Follow-ups to earlier works deconstructing images from television programs, these pictures seem to have lost touch with their source. His large-scale installation "Nexus 7" includes 96 small wooden TV screen-shaped panels hung slightly off kilter, prompting me to wonder, at first, if the irregularities were intentional or mistaken. In all, the show comes off as too low-tech to suit its retro-futurist conceit.

"David Jung: Maker Day" at Numark Gallery, 625-27 E St. NW, Tuesday-Thursday 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Friday-Saturday 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 202-628-3810, to May 29.