Untitled (Salon Holder)

Louise Lawler · 1992

This is Untitled (Salon Holder), also by Lawler, made in nineteen ninety-two and also compressed into a paperweight of crystal and felt. You have to lean over a small heavy object to see a picture of a room you were never invited into.

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

Hanging beside it in Gallery 208: Remnants of a movie set. Abandoned shipyard. Los Angeles harbor. Terminal Island, California from the series Fish Story, A 36" X 36" REMOVAL TO THE LATHING OR SUPPORT WALL OF PLASTER OR WALLBOARD FROM A WALL

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

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