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Ten black, horizontal, rectangular panels are hung evenly spaced in a vertical stack above a larger red rectangle, and those eleven pieces are flanked by two identical, round, black and white photographs that are almost as tall as the stacked panels. Each of the ten black panels bear a single word in lowercase, white letters. From top to bottom, they read, “ring,” “surround,” “lasso,” “noose,” “eye,” “areola,” “halo,” “cuffs,” “collar,” and “loop.” The red panel is inscribed, also with white, lowercase letters, “feel the ground sliding from under you.” Each of the two round photographs is framed with a narrow black band and shows the full lips, narrow chin, collarbone, and chest of a Black person. The person wears a white scooped neck top that creates a crescent moon shape at the bottom of the image.

Lorna Simpson

Untitled (Two Necklines), 1989

Not on View

Medium

2 gelatin silver prints and 11 plastic plaques

Dimensions

overall: 101.6 x 254 cm (40 x 100 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Collectors Committee

Accession Number

2005.44.1.a-c

Artists / Makers

Lorna Simpson (artist) American, born 1960

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Copyright

Inscription

on verso of panel b, signed by artist, on Sean Kelly Gallery label affixed to bottom center: Lorna Simpson; typed on label in black ink: edition of 3, 2 AP's (AP 1/2)

Provenance

Lorna Simpson; NGA purchase, 2005.

Associated Names

Sean Kelly Gallery

Exhibition History

2006: Lorna Simpson, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles; Miami Art Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2006 - 2007, unnumbered catalogue.

2016: Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016 - 2017, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

2006: Lorna Simpson. Exh. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles; Miami Art Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo; The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston. New York: Abrams, in association with the American Federation of Arts, 2006.