The Joanne Duffy Piece
Neil Jenney
American, born 1945
1968
A low, room-spanning sculpture assembled from weathered corrugated tin sheets and circular fluorescent fixtures, in which the artist uses ordinary industrial materials to turn gallery space itself into the work.
You’re struck by the quiet, stage-like spread: rusted, upright tin panels read like tiny facades while pale, ringed fluorescents sit on the floor and hang on the wall, their cords sketching a fragile line across the white space.
Made in 1968, the piece bridges Minimalism and post-Minimal practices by using found, humble materials and light to question polished objecthood and to redirect attention to material presence, site, and the gallery’s framing of ordinary things.
Medium
Corrugated tin sheeting and fluorescent fixtures
Dimensions
Overall 7' 4" x 20' 7" x 67 1/2" (223.5 x 627.4 x 171.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds
Accession
1.2003.a-h
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