Larry Bell, still ringing in an art gallery near you
The arts community turned out for the opening reception of “Light Knots,” featuring new sculptural work by Larry Bell. L-r, Oliver Bell, John Van Hamersveld (in the back with clear glasses), Peter Shelton, Larry Bell, Homeira Goldstein, Andy Moses (in the back), Ed Moses, and DeWain Valentine. All Photos by Gloria Plascencia With one flourish of his pen, Peter Plagens summed him up nicely in Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-1970: “(I)t was Larry Bell who stood, in the mid-sixties, as the embodiment of the L.A. Look, both in its initial phase and as it developed.” Living and working in Venice in the early 1960s, Bell came up through the ranks of the art world along with the likes of Robert Irwin, Ken Price, Billy Al Bengsten, Ed Ruscha, Joe Goode, Llyn Foulkes, Ed Moses and DeWain Valentine. He was among those artists who were feted and featured at such galleries as Ferus and Rolf Nelson, and who now end up in the most prestigious museums of the world. So, it’s no small accomplishment on behalf of Arts Manhattan that Homeira Goldstein has curated an exhibition of Bell’s latest work, work so recent that most of the 17 or so pieces on view in the CreativeArtsCenter are…
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