January 1977. Stone, steel. Dimensions: 74 × 120 × 46 in (188 × 305 × 117 cm).
Wall Prop (1977) is a transitional work linking the tensegrity, or Brute Series, with the Gallery Drawing Series of 1977–78. While retaining the earlier work’s reliance on gravity, tension, and the physical interaction of stone and steel, it introduces the idea of the frame as a device that defines and legitimizes an object as art.
The extended steel bar functions simultaneously as structure, frame, and line—a three-dimensional drawing surrounding the stone and the space it occupies. This exploration of framing would continue in the Gallery Drawings and later the Easel Landscape Series, questioning how framing something can alter our perception of it and confer the status of art.
January 1977. Stone, steel. Dimensions: 74 × 120 × 46 in (188 × 305 × 117 cm).
Wall Prop (1977) is a transitional work linking the tensegrity, or Brute Series, with the Gallery Drawing Series of 1977–78. While retaining the earlier work’s reliance on gravity, tension, and the physical interaction of stone and steel, it introduces the idea of the frame as a device that defines and legitimizes an object as art.
The extended steel bar functions simultaneously as structure, frame, and line—a three-dimensional drawing surrounding the stone and the space it occupies. This exploration of framing would continue in the Gallery Drawings and later the Easel Landscape Series, questioning how framing something can alter our perception of it and confer the status of art.
