VFGY9

1979 - Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)

Larry Bell

location: Venice, California
year born: 1939
gender: male
nationality: American
home town: Chicago, Illinois

Like many of Larry Bell’s works, VFGY9 deals primarily with the viewer’s experience of sight. The blocks resemble a stone carving, or slabs of wood shaped into a simple organic composition whose overall sheen is varied through a thin layer of aluminum vapor. Yet, the real material of Bell’s piece is actually light, formed within the viewer’s eye into masses as present as stone.


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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Untitled
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John McCracken

Though not strictly representational, some objects in Untitled (1962) are recognizable: a flower, an egg, a foot...

Untitled (series)
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Francis Alÿs

2006

This series of small drawings is executed with varying materials—pen, ink, colored pencil, charcoal, and masking tape—on architect’s tracing paper...

Suspension
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Sebastián Díaz Morales

2014

In Suspension a young man is hanging in the air, falling, or perhaps drifting through time and space...

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Tree on Keystone
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Lucas Blalock

2011

Compositions such as Tree on Keystone (2011) become hyperreal versions of their real-world equivalents...

three, three, three
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Lucas Blalock

2013

Blalock resists the immediacy that we have come to expect from photography—that each photograph should communicate its message without delay...

Higher Horse
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Kate Gilmore

2008

In the six-minute single-channel video Higher Horse , Kate Gilmore perches herself on top of a tall pile of plaster blocks, in front of a pink colored wall with vein-like streaks of red...

Untitled
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Martin Kippenberger

1989

Untitled is a work on paper by Martin Kippenberger comprised of several seemingly disparate elements: cut-out images of a group of dancers, a japanese ceramic vase, and a pair of legs, are all combined with gestural, hand-drawn traces and additional elements such as a candy wrapper from a hotel in Monte Carlo and a statistical form from a federal government office in Wiesbaden, Germany...

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Untitled (Construction)
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Larry Bell

2007

Untitled (Construction) recalls the series of glass cubes that gained Bell international recognition in the 1960s...

Tree on Keystone
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Lucas Blalock

2011

Compositions such as Tree on Keystone (2011) become hyperreal versions of their real-world equivalents...

three, three, three
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Lucas Blalock

2013

Blalock resists the immediacy that we have come to expect from photography—that each photograph should communicate its message without delay...

Higher Horse
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Kate Gilmore

2008

In the six-minute single-channel video Higher Horse , Kate Gilmore perches herself on top of a tall pile of plaster blocks, in front of a pink colored wall with vein-like streaks of red...

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Gated Commune
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Camel Collective

2018

Gated Commune , a video by Camel Collective, is a critique of the complex, and often obtuse, language used to describe sustainable development projects...

The Great Adventure of the Material World Knight
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Lu Yang

2021

The Great Adventure of the Material World Knight by Lu Yang is a video game world in which an androgynous protagonist goes on a hero’s journey to overcome their understanding of the material world as a coherent, objective truth...

5901 NW 2nd Ave., Miami, FL 33127 (Botanica)
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Eddie Arroyo

2016

5901 NW 2nd Ave., Miami, FL 33127 (Botanica) is a series of paintings that artist Eddie Arroyo created over an extended period of time, depicting the same site as it appeared from 2016 to 2018...

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Sirens
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Paul Kos

1977

Taking its title from the eponymous mythological creature—famously featured as sea nymphs in Homer’s Odyssey...

Sound of Ice Melting
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Paul Kos

1970

Sound of Ice Melting is based on the ancient Zen Buddhist koan about the sound of one hand clapping...

Splinters and Seconal
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Ed Ruscha

1973

In 1970, Ruscha began a series of paintings made from stains...

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Untitled (Construction)
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Larry Bell

2007

Untitled (Construction) recalls the series of glass cubes that gained Bell international recognition in the 1960s...

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Untitled
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John McCracken

Though not strictly representational, some objects in Untitled (1962) are recognizable: a flower, an egg, a foot...

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Les allégories
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Chloé Quenum

2017

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...

Ballerina
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Liu Yin

2010

Liu Yin brings the tension of a small but imminent catastrophe into the gallery with a raw egg balanced on the edge of a folding table....

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He and his brothers $35 million toward the building of a wing at the National Gallery....