Weisman Museum Hosts Larry Bell Art Exhibition
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The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art displayed the art exhibition Larry Bell: Pacific Red from January 21 through April 2.
The exhibition featured a new site-specific installation that used Bell’s signature
materials—glass, plastic, and industrial coatings—to push the boundaries of vision
and perception.
Bell was a founder of the California Light and Space movement in the 1960s and has
since continued
to explore the dynamic possibilities of light and optics—forcing audiences to question
the reliability of what they see. Using layers of overlapping glass, his surfaces
function both as mirrors and windows, pushing the limits of sculpture by dissolving
mass into perceptual phenomena.