The Clip-On Method, p. 186

a photograph of a cady noland catalogue on a wooden table. the book is open to page 186, which is filled by a single 1991 work, SLA Group Photo with Floating Head, a distorted image of a group of white people in black posed with the seven headed snake logo of the symbionese liberation army behind them like a princess amidala headdress, only the face of the person whose head is lined up with the logo has been crudely cut out, leaving a void, and the face is stuck into the upper left corner. this whole messy composition was screenprinted onto a sheet of aluminum, which is now, in may 2025, for sale at sothebys
SLA Group Photo with Floating Head, 1991, paint and silkscreen on aluminum, 75 1/2 x 60 5/8 in., formerly of the Sammlung Goetz, yet another private museum which started offloading stuff, illustrated in what is now being used as Cady Noland’s de facto catalogue raisonné

Instead of posting an artist disclaimer on a work for sale, Sotheby’s just cites its appearance in the artist’s book, and the four three museums, public and private—and whatever Peter Brant is doing—which hold other variations on the work. Whatever else is going on in the world, we do live in a Golden Age of Cady Noland Marketing.

16 May 2025, lot 529: Cady Noland, SLA Group Shot With Floating Head, 1991 [sothebys]