ラリー ベル Bell, Larry
Larry Bell is one of the most influential artists to emerge from Southern California’s Light and Space movement that emerged in the Los Angeles-area in the 1960s. While they worked in a range of materials and scale, the loosely connected group of artists—including James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Mary Corse, Helen Pashgian, Doug Wheeler, and others —focused on viewer’s perception and how everyday experience can transform through light. Bell’s first experimentation with glass was in 1959 when he worked in a framing shop and learned to cut glass. He moved from Los Angeles to Taos, New Mexico, where he continues to live and work, in 1973.
Bell’s work is well-known to New York museumgoers. The 2017 Whitney Biennial featured Pacific Red II, six red glass cubes that were displayed on a terrace at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2022, a long-term installation of his opened at Dia Beacon. The artist’s large- and small-scale works are in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. His engagement with publicness – with the openness of civic space in the city, within a bustling setting – is unprecedented at Madison Square Park.
