101 Second Street
SOMA Financial District
Sumer #24 by Larry Bell – Bronze
Sumer #24 is a result of the POPOS program and the 1% for Art program of San Francisco. While it is viewable through the windows of the building it is available for viewing up close from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm M-F.
Larry Bell (born in 1939 in Chicago, Illinois) is a contemporary American artist and sculptor. He lives and works in Taos, New Mexico, and maintains a studio in Venice, California. From 1957 to 1959 he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles as a student of Robert Irwin, Richards Ruben,Robert Chuey, and Emerson Woelffer. He is a grant recipient from, among others, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and his artworks are found in the collections of many major cultural institutions. Bell’s work has been shown at museums and in public spaces in the United States and abroad over the course of his 40-year career.
Larry Bell’s art addresses the relationship between the art object and its environment through the sculptural and reflective properties of his work. Bell is often associated with Light and Space, a group of mostly West Coast artists whose work is primarily concerned with perceptual experience stemming from the viewer’s interaction with their work.
It’s like a line drawing in bronze!
What a great piece of art. I love installation art in cities because it is always about the relationship of the art to its surroundings. I like that this piece almost looks like a man from one perspective but then becomes something else entirely from the other.
It IS beautiful BUT you’ve got a typo in the name. It’s not “summer,” is SUMER, as in the Sumerian ancient civilization and historical region in southern Mesopotamia, ca. 2900 BC. He did a whole series of figures that have a story that relates to the birth of civilization. Check it out with the artist,