Untitled (Construction) recalls the series of glass cubes that gained Bell international recognition in the 1960s. Resembling a black-mirrored box, this recent iridescent piece produces an uncanny effect in which the interior planes seem to enclose a mysterious light. Although austere in form, Bell’s works are far from simple: he uses technology like a vacuum-coating process, to accurately control the different levels of opacity and transparency on the surface of his immaculate glass works.
Often associated with the Light and Space movement—which as also includes James Turrell, Robert Irwin, and John McCracken—Larry Bell has been an important figure and influence in the West Coast contemporary art scene since the early 1960s. Less interested in the material, concrete qualities of the object than in heightening awareness of the environment in which it is situated, his abstract geometric sculptural works possess a certain mystical aspect and engage the viewer in a myriad of perceptual experiences.
Though not strictly representational, some objects in Untitled (1962) are recognizable: a flower, an egg, a foot...
In 1977, as an already-established artist best known for his films, Bruce Conner began to photograph punk rock shows at Mabuhay Gardens, a San Francisco club and music venue...
Nuevo Dragon City is a reenactment of a historical event from 1927 in which six Chinese were either trapped or voluntarily hid themselves inside a building in northern Mexico...
Compositions such as Tree on Keystone (2011) become hyperreal versions of their real-world equivalents...
Blalock resists the immediacy that we have come to expect from photography—that each photograph should communicate its message without delay...
Martin Kippenberger’s late collages are known for incorporating a wide range of materials, from polaroids and magazine clips to hotel stationery, decals, and graphite drawings...
Every work in Hoeber’s 2011 series Execution Changes is titled in alphanumeric code...
Like many of Larry Bell’s works, VFGY9 deals primarily with the viewer’s experience of sight...
Compositions such as Tree on Keystone (2011) become hyperreal versions of their real-world equivalents...
Blalock resists the immediacy that we have come to expect from photography—that each photograph should communicate its message without delay...
Weekly Picks: Indonesia (25 February - 3 March 2019) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do February 25, 2019 Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Bali and Jakarta from 25 February – 3 March 2019 At Sudakara Art Space in Bali, Arya Trimini Putra is attempting to create 1000 paintings in 30 days and you can participate in this record-breaking attempt...
In 2007 Lubaina Himid began a series of works she later called Negative Positives: The Guardian Archive (2007-2017)...
Julio Cesar Morales’s watercolor drawings, Undocumented Intervention , show a variety of surprising hiding places assumed by people trying to cross into the United States without documentation...
For Untitled, Caesar encased recycled objects such as scraps of plywood, paper or cloth in resin and then cut and reassembled the pieces into abstract forms...
The five works included in the Kadist Collection are representative of Pettibon’s complex drawings which are much more narrative than comics or cartoon...
Like many of Larry Bell’s works, VFGY9 deals primarily with the viewer’s experience of sight...
Though not strictly representational, some objects in Untitled (1962) are recognizable: a flower, an egg, a foot...
The stained glass windows of Chloé Quenum’s Les Allégories evoke the sacred and describe the movement of a rooster in the form of patterns extracted from a wax fabric found in Benin...
This untitled painting by Tirdad Hasemi presents a space that can be thought of as both a prison cell and a house...
“Weight & velocity (cat on router)” is a duo of two humorous photographs of a cat lying on a computer router...