Sweet appropriation - I would not have known by just viewing the simple image in Art Finder. Zoom rules, and "Nicely done" to Tansey.

Question: Is this the piece that was shown at a Whitney Biennial some years back? If so, do you have any idea where the sculptural piece (also Tansey) went? It was the device that generated art theory jargon.

Answer: Yes, this painting was in the Whitney Biennial in 1991. The catalog shows three works by Tansey: Constructing the Grand Canyon, shown here, another painting titled Bridge over the Cartesian Gap, and a 3-dimensional work called Wheel, all dated 1990.

You are also correct about Wheel.  I found this quotation from a 1997 New York Times article by Phoebe Hoban:

"MARK TANSEY SITS BACK in his TriBeCa studio to observe his latest painting, putting his mug of tea on a wooden wheel inscribed with enigmatic phrases like ''rogue programmers,'' ''the prisoner of foreplay'' and ''encountering the original.'' Although it's now a table, Mr. Tansey invented the wheel as a kind of handmade metaphor machine. Spinning it like a wheel of fortune provided permutations of philosophical and metaphysical problems, which he used as reference points for his paintings.

Mr. Tansey's wheel is, in a sense, a compass, a guide through the territory of his work; he is the master of mordant polemical paintings about modernist art theory and deconstructionism, a painter who makes paintings about the idea of making paintings."

The article went on to say that he had stopped using the wheel, but it is an interesting approach to generating concept for a work of art.