2 Tracks
Lorna Simpson's '2 Tracks' is a gelatin silver print triptych mounted in artist's frames with accompanying engraved text plaques. The work combines photography with textual elements to explore narrative and meaning.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print triptych, flush-mounted in artist's frames, with two engraved text plaques.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
October 9, 2024
Lot 157
Artists in conversation
Carrie Mae Weems
American · b. 1953
Weems similarly combines black and white gelatin silver photography with text elements to create conceptual narrative works that explore identity and the African American experience, mirroring Simpson's approach in 2 Tracks precisely.
Barbara Kruger
American · b. 1945
Kruger integrates photographic imagery with engraved or printed text in a conceptual framework, using the tension between image and language to construct layered meaning in ways that closely parallel Simpson's text and image strategy.
Glenn Ligon
American · b. 1960
Ligon works within a text based conceptual art tradition rooted in black and white visual language and American identity, producing serial and triptych formatted works that share the same investigative relationship between text and image found in 2 Tracks.
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