One Work: Diane Simpson’s “Two Point Enclosure”

Diane Simpson’s exhibition at JTT in New York, “Point of View,” is filled with oblique allusions to architectural details: a banister, a roof, a townhouse window. One sculpture, Two Point Enclosure (2020), distinguishes itself precisely because the referent for its distorted form is pleasantly unclear. One of three works Simpson produced for this show from drawings made between 1980 and 1981, at the outset of her late-blooming career, Enclosure was originally realized as p