Bella Oaks

An historic Rutherford vineyard continuing its legacy under the stewardship of Suzanne Deal Booth.

10/31/2025

Suzan Frecon’s "four directions, second" reflects her deep engagement with color, form, and the quiet poetics of abstraction. Composed of asymmetrical geometric shapes painted in carefully layered hues, the work emphasizes the physical presence of paint and the meditative rhythms of balance and proportion. Frecon’s surfaces, rich with subtle shifts of tone and texture, invite sustained looking—revealing depth and luminosity over time. Rooted in materiality yet resonant with spiritual stillness, "four directions, second" exemplifies her pursuit of painting as a space of contemplation.

10/20/2025

Yayoi Kusama’s "Infinity-Green" continues her lifelong investigation of repetition, pattern, and boundlessness. Known for her use of polka dots among other mediums, Kusama creates works that dissolve the boundaries between self and surroundings. In "Infinity-Green," the rhythmic layering of form and color evokes a sense of endless expansion, pulling the viewer into a meditative space that is at once intimate and cosmic. Like much of her art, it reflects her quest to merge personal psychology with universal themes of infinity and connection.

10/15/2025

Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925, Port Arthur, Texas; d. 2008, Captiva, Florida) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose experimental spirit helped redefine the trajectory of postwar art. Emerging in the 1950s, he bridged Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art with his groundbreaking "Combines"—hybrid works that fused painting, sculpture, and found objects. Throughout his career, Rauschenberg embraced unconventional materials and processes, collaborating with dancers, musicians, and engineers to expand the possibilities of artistic expression. A restless innovator, he explored printmaking, performance, photography, and assemblage, always challenging the boundaries between art and life. His work is held in major museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, Tate, and Centre Pompidou. In 1993, he received the National Medal of Arts, cementing his place as one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century.

10/10/2025

Robert Rauschenberg’s "Summer Rattle Glut" is part of his Gluts series, created from discarded metal objects he collected in Texas during the mid-1980s. Inspired by the collapse of the oil boom, Rauschenberg transformed scrap materials—automobile parts, street signs, and industrial debris—into assemblages that reflect both the excess and decline of American consumer culture. "Summer Rattle Glut" exemplifies his ability to fuse everyday detritus with sculptural invention, imbuing found objects with new life while commenting on cycles of abundance and waste.

10/01/2025

Larry Bell (b. 1939, Chicago, IL) is an American contemporary artist renowned for his pioneering work with glass, light, and perception. Associated with the Southern California Light and Space movement of the 1960s, Bell explores how reflections, transparency, and environments alter visual experience. His iconic glass cubes and large-scale installations investigate the interplay between material and immaterial, solid and ephemeral. Over his six-decade career, Bell has exhibited internationally, with works held in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Tate, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He continues to live and work in Taos, New Mexico, and Venice, California, pushing the boundaries of abstraction and perception.

09/26/2025

Larry Bell’s "The Shower" exemplifies his lifelong exploration of light, reflection, and perception. Known for pushing the boundaries of abstraction, Bell combines gestural brushwork with layered textures that evoke both movement and transparency. In this work, sweeping strokes and fragmented forms create a sense of fluidity—suggesting the shifting experience of water, glass, and light. As with much of Bell’s practice, "The Shower" invites viewers to look beyond the surface, engaging with the play of material and immaterial that defines his art.

09/10/2025

Shirazeh Houshiary (b. 1955, Shiraz, Iran) is a Britain-based multidisciplinary artist, spanning sculpture, painting, installation, and animation. Drawing on Sufi mysticism, Islamic geometry, and Western art history, Houshiary explores themes of presence, perception, and the ineffable. Her works often evoke breath, sound, and the rhythms of nature, blurring the boundaries between material and immaterial. She rose to prominence in the 1980s as part of a generation of artists redefining British sculpture, and her work has since been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Tate, the Venice Biennale, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

09/03/2025

With elegant curvature and shadowplay, "Allegory of Sound" by Iranian multidisciplinary artist Shirazeh Houshiary translates the immateriality of vibration into sculptural form. Cast in bronze and painted in black, the work hovers between gesture and structure, evoking the movement of breath, language, or music. Rooted in Sufi philosophy and poetic abstraction, Houshiary’s practice gives visual form to the unseen, inviting viewers to attune not only their eyes, but their inner ear.

[📸: Group A Systems]

08/27/2025

Ken Price (b. 1935, Los Angeles, California; d. Taos, New Mexico, 2012) was an American sculptor known for his pioneering work in ceramic sculpture and his bold integration of color, form, and finish. Emerging from the postwar Los Angeles art scene, Price challenged traditional hierarchies between craft and fine art, drawing influence from jazz, surf culture, and Mexican folk pottery. His vividly colored, biomorphic forms often blur the line between the organic and the abstract, the sensual and the surreal. Over a career spanning five decades, his work was exhibited widely, including retrospectives at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

08/20/2025

With its vibrant surface and biomorphic form, "Vona" exemplifies American sculptor Ken Price’s radical approach to sculpture, melding ceramic tradition with painterly abstraction. Layers of vividly speckled color cloak the twisting, organic shape, inviting both tactile curiosity and quiet contemplation. At once playful and enigmatic, the work resists easy interpretation, echoing Price’s lifelong exploration of form, finish, and the space between the familiar and the fantastical.

[📸: Matt Morris]

08/13/2025

Mungo Thomson (b. 1969, Woodland, California) is an American multidisciplinary artist whose work explores perception, time, and cultural memory through subtle shifts in familiar systems. Working across video, sound, sculpture, and installation, Thomson often repurposes found materials—from TIME Magazine covers to Hubble Space Telescope imagery—to question the boundaries between visibility and invisibility, presence and absence. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Hammer Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Museo Jumex, and the Whitney Biennial.

08/07/2025

In "Negative Space," American multidisciplinary artist Mungo Thomson renders an inverted negative photographic mural of a nebula from the Hubble Space Telescope archive, enveloping the viewer in a vast, celestial field. Installed along a transitional corridor, the work invites contemplation of scale, time, and perception—placing the infinite within reach and prompting a quiet dialogue between architecture, image, and the void.

[📸: Matt Morris]

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