
Larry Bell
TRIOLITH-C (Lapis / Sea Salt / Blush) C, 2020
Laminated glass coated with inconel and silicon monoxide
1 Lapis rectangle 12 x 12 inches
1 Blush triangle 12 x 12 inches
1 Sea Salt triangle 12 x 16 inches
Overall: 12 x 28 x 12 inches
Larry Bell
TRIOLITH-C (Lapis / Sea Salt / Blush) C, 2020
Laminated glass coated with inconel and silicon monoxide
1 Lapis rectangle 12 x 12 inches
1 Blush triangle 12 x 12 inches
1 Sea Salt triangle 12 x 16 inches
Overall: 12 x 28 x 12 inches
Larry Bell
Bay Area Blues, 2018
Unique
2 panels Lapis glass, 2 panels True Sea Salt glass, each: 72 x 96 x 1/2 inches (182.9 x 243.8 x 1.3 cm)
2 panels Cornflower Blue glass, 2 panels True Sea Salt glass, each: 72 x 48 x 1/2 inches (182.9 x 121.9 x 1.3 cm)
Overall: 72 x 96 1/4 x 96 1/4 inches (182.9 x 244.5 x 244.5 cm)
Larry Bell
CS 7.2.16F, 2016
Aluminum and silicon monoxide on Arches black paper mounted on canvas
60 x 40 inches
152.4 x 101.6 cm
Larry Bell
TRIOLITH-C (Sea Salt / Lagoon) A, 2020
Laminated glass coated with inconel and silicon monoxide
12 x 12 inch Sea Salt Rectangle, 2 12 x 12 inch Lagoon Triangles
Overall: 12 x 24 x 12 inches
Larry Bell
Untitled Maquette (Poppy / True Fog), 2018
Laminated glass
Unique
2 panels Poppy glass, 2 panels True Fog glass, each: 12 x 16 x 1/4 inches (30.5 x 40.6 x .6 cm)
2 panels Poppy glass, 2 panels True Fog glass, each: 12 x 8 x 1/4 inches (30.5 x 20.3 x .6 cm)
Overall: 12 x 16 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 x 40.6 cm)
Larry Bell
Untitled Maquette (Cerise / True Blizzard), 2018
Laminated glass
Unique
4 panels Cerise Glass, each: 12 x 16 x 1/4 inches (30.5 x 40.6 x .6 cm)
4 panels True Blizzard glass, each: 12 x 8 x 1/4 inches (30.5 x 20.3 x .6 cm)
Overall: 12 x 16 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 x 40.6 cm)
Larry Bell
CS 11.26.16, 2016
Mixed media with aluminum and silicon monoxide on red Hiromi paper mounted on canvas
60 x 40 inches
152.4 x 101.6 cm
Larry Bell
Untitled Maquette (True Sea Salt / Kelp), 2018
Laminated glass
Unique
4 panels True Sea Salt glass, each: 12 x 16 x 1/4 inches (30.5 x 40.6 x .6 cm)
4 panels Kelp glass, each: 12 x 8 x 1/4 inches (30.5 x 20.3 x .6 cm)
Overall: 12 x 16 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 x 40.6 cm)
Larry Bell
Untitled, 1968
Glass cube with metal seams
12 x 12 x 12 inches
30.5 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm
Larry Bell
Untitled Maquette (Cornflower Blue / True Sea Salt), 2018
Laminated glass
Unique
2 panels Cornflower Blue Glass, 2 panels True Sea Salt glass, each: 12 x 16 x 1/4 inches (30.5 x 40.6 x .6 cm)
2 panels Cornflower Blue Glass, 2 panels True Sea Salt glass, each: 12 x 8 x 1/4 inches (30.5 x 20.3 x .6 cm)
Overall: 12 x 16 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 x 40.6 cm)
Larry Bell
Installation view: "Larry Bell: Time Machines", 2018
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Larry Bell lives and works in Taos, NM and Venice, CA. Bell attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA, from 1957 to 1959. Bell is a recipient of multiple recognitions, among them the Governor’s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts, Santa Fe, NM (1990); the Guggenheim Fellowship (1970); and grants from the Copley Foundation (1962) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1975).
Bell has had solo exhibitions at such institutions as the Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO; Carré d’Art Musée d’art Contemporain de Nimes, France; The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA; and The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM.
Group exhibitions include Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Doug Wheeler, Tate Britain, London, 1970; 11 Los Angeles Artists, Hayward Gallery, London, 1971; Geometric Abstraction and Minimalism in America, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1989; Phenomenal, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, 2011; Continuum: Light, Space & Time, The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM, 2016; Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2017; and Seeking Stillness, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2017.
Selected public collections include The Anderson Collection of Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM; Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Gallery, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.