Framed works

There are many of these – Sands sees framing as a way to finish and finesse a work, similar to how Robert Mapplethorpe made framed photo objects at the beginning of his career before he hit on B/W photography as his ‘horse drawings’ or work system. These vary in size and are professionally made or bought at shops like HEMA or Xenos (Sands’ favourite art supply store in ways). Once Sands gave Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens a framed image of himself, an early selfie before digital photography, and in the group they were in of art world people a student asked, “Did you make the frame?” Trying to figure out where the “art” part was… :-) – SMW.


Listings connecting to the typology “Framed works” (2)



Image of Studio object

Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray

  • Catalog No.
  • 02381-2019-FwPP-Carolee+Sands
  • Title
  • Carolee + Sands Magic Hair Pyramid & Working 2000 x 3
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Construction in hand-carved, hand-gilded frame (triangle) and three framed signed works (rectangles) of photo collages printed from slides
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

“Above: Carolee had a knot in her hair. We were in her hotel room in Frankfurt where we met for her retrospective in 2017. She asked me if I could help to comb her hair and untangle the knot, and she insisted that Robin photograph it as a performance. Below: In 2000 in the first house that Robin and I shared together in Amsterdam, which was 19 square meters, I was on the phone arranging a purchase from Ronald Feldman Gallery of ‘Handle with Care,’ a work by Hannah Wilke. As Robin often does, he documented the action as a work.” – SMW.

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Image of Studio object

  • Catalog No.
  • 02382-1991/2021-FwGT-nt(Sengalinocut)
  • Title
  • n.t. (Senga linocut)
  • Dimensions
  • 44 x 75
  • Materials
  • Framed lino-block and print
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Technical Notes

Lino-block produced (and signed on the back) by Senga Nengudi in 1991, which gifted to SMW around 2011 and printed at the Rijksakademie print lab during SMW’s guest residency in 2021.

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