Lance Pearce: art object

Lance Pearce, Untitled (2010), Mirror sheets, adhesive tape.

Light and space

Larry Bell, 20" Untitled (Tom Messer Cube) (1969), Glass, stainless steel.

'Larry Bell's "glass cube" manifests the "less is more" aesthetic that drove much twentieth-century geometric abstraction. Reducing compositional elements to a minimum is, however, a risky artistic endeavor; viewers often find the work simplistic, without visual interest, and nothing more than a modernist joke. Artists, on the other hand, have conceived reductivism as a means to distill form to a purer essence, to focus on a medium's constituent elements, and to produce a distraction-free work that can induce a contemplative, even spiritual attitude.'

Mark Thistlewaite in Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 110, ed. Michael Auping, Fort Worth, Texas: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; London: Third Millennium Pub., 2002, 215. 

'Bell's pristine objects heighten our sensitivity to the mundane world - one moment at a time - revealing, in the process, that ordinary things are simple only when their complex details are casually overlooked or aggressively ignored.'

David Pagel, 'Larry Bell' (exhibition review), Art Issues, 51:46, Jan-Feb 1998.

Lance Pearce: art object

Lance Pearce, Too Bad for the Egg (for Robert Filliou) (2010), Canvas, egg.

Lance Pearce, Too Bad for the Egg (for Robert Filliou) (detail) (2010), Canvas, egg.

 

Lance Pearce, Too Bad for the Egg (for Robert Filliou) (detail) (2010), Canvas, egg.

Lance Pearce, Too Bad for the Egg (for Robert Filliou) (detail) (2010), Canvas, egg.

Lance Pearce: art object

Lance Pearce, Untitled (2010), Canvas, ice, clamp.

 

Lance Pearce, Untitled (2010), Canvas, ice, clamp.

Lance Pearce, Untitled (2010), Canvas, ice, clamp.

Lance Pearce: art object

Lance Pearce, Untitled (2010), Timber.

Lance Pearce, Untitled (2010), Timber.

Lance Pearce: art object

Lance Pearce, Untitled (2010), Building paper.

Lance Pearce: art object

Lance Pearce, Untitled (2010), Acrylic, timber.

Lance Pearce, Untitled (2010), Acrylic, timber.