Episode No. 12 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Larry Bell.
Installations of Bell’s work in Pacific Standard Time exhibitions, including in “Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface” at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (see this week’s banner), were among the highlights of the series. PST especially revealed Bell, 72, as a key pivot between California hard-edge painting, light-and-space, and minimalism, which Bell anticipated in his sculpture of the late 1950s. Bell’s work is in the collection of virtually every major museum of modern and contemporary art.
Air date: Jan. 26, 2012.
Larry Bell, L. Bell’s House, 1959.
Larry Bell, untitled, 1959.
Larry Bell, untitled, 1959. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Larry Bell, My Montauk, 1960. Courtesy Frank Lloyd Gallery.
Larry Bell, Lux at the Ferus, 1961. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Larry Bell, Old Cotton Fields Back Home, 1962. Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Larry Bell, untitled, 1962. Collection of the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, Calif.
Larry Bell, Little Blank Riding Hood, 1962. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
Larry Bell, A Wisp of the Girl She Used to Be, 1963. Collection of the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, Calif.
Larry Bell, untitled, 1968. Collection of the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, Calif.
Larry Bell, untitled, 1968. Collection of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Larry Bell, no title, 1969. As installed in “14 Sculptors: The Industrial Edge,” Dayton’s Auditorium, Walker Art Center, 1969. Photograph courtesy Walker Art Center.
Installation of Larry Bell’s untitled installation at the Museum of Modern Art’s “Spaces” exhibition, 1969. Photographs courtesy of and copyright the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Installation of Larry Bell’s untitled installation at the Museum of Modern Art’s “Spaces” exhibition, 1969. Photographs courtesy of and copyright the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Installation of Larry Bell’s untitled installation at the Museum of Modern Art’s “Spaces” exhibition, 1969. Photographs courtesy of and copyright the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Larry Bell, untitled, ca. 1970. As installed in “Phenomenal,” 2011, at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
Larry Bell, Two Glass Walls — Diagonal Top, 1973. Vacuum-plated glass, 71 7/8 x 103 1/8 x 49 7/8 in. (182.6 x 261.9 x 126.7 cm); as installed. Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington. Photo: Colin Johnson.
Larry Bell, The Iceberg and Its Shadow, ca. 1977. Collection of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Larry Bell, The Iceberg and Its Shadow, ca. 1977. Collection of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Larry Bell, The Iceberg and Its Shadow, ca. 1977. Collection of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
