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Billy Al Bengston (June 7, 1934 – October 8, 2022) was an American visual artist and sculptor who lived and worked in Venice, California, and Honolulu, Hawaii. Bengston was probably best known for work he created that reflected California's "Kustom" car and motorcycle culture.
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- October 8, 2022 (aged 88), Venice, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- July 7, 1934, Dodge City, Kansas, U.S.
Oct 20, 2022 · By Alex Williams. Published Oct. 20, 2022 Updated Oct. 23, 2022. Billy Al Bengston, a Kansas-born California painter who drew inspiration from the car and surf culture of midcentury Los...
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Oct 14, 2022 · In 1968, LACMA presented Billy Al Bengston, a 10-year survey of the artist’s paintings, which he designed with the help of then-emerging architect Frank Gehry; the installation, radical at the time, was meant to evoke the artist’s studio with exposed plywood studs, furniture borrowed from the artist’s studio, and a life-size wax figure of ...
Billy Al Bengston (June 7, 1934 – October 8, 2022) was an American visual artist and sculptor who lived and worked in Venice, California, and Honolulu, Hawaii. Bengston was probably best known for work he created that reflected California's "Kustom" car and motorcycle culture.
Billy-Al Bengston led the pack. On my second day of work at the County Art Museum a photograph of all the prominent Los Angeles artists was being taken on the steps of the museum. I was wearing a dress. Billy-Al’s first words to me were ‘You look attractive in that ugly dress.’ I was flattered. He noticed my dress.
Billy Al Bengston Studio In the 1950s, artist Billy Al Bengston’s studio was at this location in what is now West Hollywood in a building near Barney’s Beanery (a restaurant and bar on Santa Monica Boulevard).
Oct 10, 2022 · 10 October 2022. The late artist Billy Al Bengston. Courtesy of Various Small Fires Los Angeles/Dallas/Seoul. Billy Al Bengston, a painter known for his stylised, highly-finished...
