Untitled (Construction)

2007 - Sculpture (Sculpture)

Larry Bell

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.

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• opacity.n.03
• glass.n.01
• preternatural.s.01
• box.n.01
• austere.s.01
• mirror.n.01
• abstract sculpture
• drawing
• flatness
• hard-edged
• minimalism
• american
• hard-edge painting
• late modernism
• neo-geo
• neo-minimalism
• neo-geometric
• 20th-century american sculptors
• light and space
• american contemporary artists
• perceptual phenomena
• minimalist artists
• geometric abstraction
• born 1939
• contemporary artist
• sculptor