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A small white boxing ring on wheels with black-and-white canvas and shoes hanging from the ropes.

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Step Into the Arena (The Essentialist Trap)

Gary Simmons

1994

Medium
Plywood, solid pine, metal hardware, canvas, ultrasuede, pigment, ropes and shoes
Dimensions
Overall: 85 × 120 × 120 in. (215.9 × 304.8 × 304.8 cm)
Accession number
95.83a-g
Acquired
1995
Credit line
Gift of the Peter Norton Family Foundation
Department
collection

About this work

Gary Simmons, Step Into the Arena (The Essentialist Trap), 1994. Plywood, solid pine, metal hardware, canvas, ultrasuede, pigment, ropes and shoes, overall: 85 × 120 × 120 in. (215.9 × 304.8 × 304.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Peter Norton Family Foundation 95.83a-g

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