Untitled (Flavin)

Louise Lawler · 1995

This is Untitled (Flavin), by Louise Lawler — a photograph, but not hung as one: the image is set into a crystal paperweight, with its text on the wall beside it. Lawler photographs other artists' work where it actually ends up, in collectors' houses and storerooms, then changes what the photograph is.

Medium Paperweight (silver dye bleach print, crystal, and felt) with text on wall · Dimensions 3 1/2" diameter × 2" high (8.9 × 5.1 cm) · Credit Gift of Elizabeth Kessenides

Hanging beside it in Gallery 208: Shipyard-workers' housing--built during the Second World War--being moved from San Pedro to South-Central Los Angeles from the series Fish Story, Welder's booth in bankrupt Todd Shipyard. Two years after closing. Los Angeles harbor. San Pedro, California from the series Fish Story

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Girl before a Mirror, Fulang-Chang and I

More by Louise Lawler here: Untitled (Salon Holder), Untitled (Wheel), Pollock and Tureen (traced)