Lawrence Weiner’s work incorporates language as an integral part of the artistic medium while directly engaging the gallery’s architecture. The terse statements for which Weiner is known typically describe a spatial relationship between a material thing and another object or its environment, such as MANY COLORED OBJECTS PLACED SIDE BY SIDE TO FORM A ROW OF MANY COLORED OBJECTS (1979). According to the artist, these imagined objects and relationships may be created in real life, but they need not be in order to constitute an artwork. Weiner’s statements involve a form of dematerialization, elevating pure conceptualization over the reality of any tangible object. At the same time, they remain decidedly object-based, emphasizing careful decisions about font, color, size, and arrangement on the wall. In Weiner’s words, “even a sentence is an object.” Particularly important to his work is the relationship that emerges between a given statement and its surroundings once it has been installed. Though not usually conceived with a specific site in mind, Weiner’s textual fragments will often interact with their settings, producing new and unpredictable effects and meanings.