GLOSS WHITE LACQUER, SPRAYED FOR 2 MINUTES AT 40LB PRESSURE DIRECTLY

Lawrence Weiner

1968

A conceptual instruction by Lawrence Weiner realized as a sprayed patch of gloss white lacquer—a work in which the written directive and the material action are the artwork.

You notice a bright, nearly circular white disc laid over warm wooden floorboards, its soft, feathered edges and glossy surface reading like a luminous absence or sun that ignores the grain beneath.

A key example of Weiner’s language-based practice, it insists that the idea, the instructions, and the materials are interchangeable, helping to shift late‑1960s art from object-making to dematerialized, reproducible concepts.

Palette

Art Terms

Conceptual art Sculpture Score Multiple Contemporary art

Exhibitions

American Painters as New Lithographers

1964

Minor White: The Eye That Shapes

1989

America Worked: The 1950s Photographs of Dan Weiner

1989

Frank Lloyd Wright: Buildings for Johnson's Wax

1952