{"data":{"id":"13379","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":13379,"topgoose_id":9740,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":13379,"title":"Two or Three or Something","display_artist_text":"Liz Larner","display_date":"1998–1999","accession_number":"2001.31","dimensions":"Overall: 105 3/8 × 64 7/8 × 64 1/2 in. (267.7 × 164.8 × 163.8 cm)","medium":"Steel, paper, and watercolor","department":"collection","classification":"Sculpture","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiz Larner, \u003cem\u003eTwo or Three or Something\u003c/em\u003e, 1998–1999. Steel, paper, and watercolor, overall: 105 3/8 × 64 7/8 × 64 1/2 in. (267.7 × 164.8 × 163.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee 2001.31. Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e© Liz Larner\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwo or Three or Something\u003c/i\u003e recalls a Minimalist cube that has been reduced to a skeleton, then bent and contorted. The edges and corners seem to have a will of their own, torquing and swooping up off the floor. Liz Larner constructed this complex armature from steel wrapped in paper and then tinted a range of yellows with watercolor paints. \u003ci\u003eTwo or Three or Something \u003c/i\u003eis therefore both painterly and sculptural; or, as the title suggests, it vacillates between two and three dimensions. Larner has explained that she is interested in employing “line to make forms that could not be perceived at all if I were to use solid volume.” Conversely, she uses sculpture to investigate shapes that cannot be appreciated in a line drawing since her objects demand viewing from all angles. A former student of photography, Larner believes that the best sculpture defies photographic reproduction, instead demanding an active, resolutely physical experience.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A pale yellow and white wire-frame sculpture with flowing geometric shapes standing on a gray floor.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:31:15.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:24.927-05:00","images":[{"id":103606,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/13379/2001_31_vw1_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"3366","type":"artist"}]}}}}