Reena Spaulings is a fictional artist and art dealer and literary persona. Under her name, several artists conceived and executed this painting, which features a crudely rendered brick–and–mortar pattern, The motif was inspired by the Lower East Side neighborhood in New York, where the Reena Spaulings gallery was first located. Because the brick pattern covers both sides of the unstretched canvas, this work can be displayed in a number of ways: folded, open, lying on the floor, draped over objects, hung as backdrop, or in a combination of these options, as seen here.

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Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art, September 10, 2008–March 23, 2009

Kids label from 2025

Bricks that break the rules!

This artwork looks like a wall—but it doesn’t behave like one! Bricks have been painted on both sides of the unstretched canvas. It can be hung, folded, or draped. What would you do with it?

Here’s another twist: The artist, Reena Spaulings, isn’t one person. It’s a made-up name used by several artists. If you and your friends or family created artworks together, what would you call yourselves?

Medium Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions 8 × 40' (243.8 × 1219.2 cm)
Credit Fund for the Twenty-First Century
Object number 461.2007
Department Painting & Sculpture

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