Gary Simmons

Step Into the Arena (The Essentialist Trap)

1994

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

Installation

Not on view

Date
1994

Classification
Installations

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

Credit line
Gift of the Peter Norton Family Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/9789





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