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White Cube Gallery

Modern Collections, Ltd.

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Narrow boards of a wood gymnasium floor were taken apart and reassembled as vertical planks that make up this wide, rectangular panel, which hangs on a wall. Several boards have long strips of black tape and one, near the top right corner, has a band of red tape. Most of the markings are short checks of black, white, red, and green tape. The wood stain is dark in some areas, gray with damage in others, or flaking in places. The two longest horizontal black stripes are near the top left corner and across the right half, about a third of the way down from the top edge of the piece. The room where this hangs has wider planked wood floors and a white wall.
Theaster Gates, Ground Rules (black line), 2015, wood flooring, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2018.11.1

Ground Rules (black line)

Theaster Gates · 2015 · wood flooring ·  Accession ID  2018.11.1

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Mushroom

Damien Hirst, Coriander Studio, Paragon Press · 1999 · color screenprint on Somerset wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.3221.1