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...BILLY AL BENGSTON, 29, an ardent affluent-society motorcyclist (he owns four), goes in for concentric emblems, usually centered on a symbol such as a sergeant's stripes. Bengston sometimes uses an auto-body painter's spray gun to lay on glossy hot-rodder colors. "I use a lot of the concepts used in motorcycles," he says. "It's a kind of companionship I can understand...
Last week the 22 exhibitions ran the gamut of modernism, from a show of Arp and Henry Moore sculpture at the distinguished Felix Landau Gallery to paintings by Pop Artist Billy Al Bengston at the Ferus Gallery. Billy Al does canvases with titles like Rock, Troy, Tyrone, Sterling. One called Fabian consists of large master-sergeant stripes against a background of orange and blue-grey doughnut shapes. It is social comment, Billy Al explains: everyone wants to be topkick. At the Heritage Gallery, a lumpy figurative painting by Rod Briggs lets out wails every time a viewer's shadow...
Robert F. Magill 3L, Indianapolis, Ind.; Joseph Gold grL, London, England; Seymour Kleinman 3L, New York, N. Y.; Edward G. Howard, Jr. 2L, Wilmington, Del.; Fred W. Peel, Jr. 2L, Danville, Ky.; Hervey C. Allen, Jr. 2L, Rockland, Me.; Donald K. Anderson 2L, Phoenix, Ariz.; Lars H. Bengston 3L, Minneapolis, Minn.; Russell S. Bernhard 3L, Chicago, Ill.; John A. Bowler 3L, Bradford, Pa.; William A. Centner 2L, Battle Creek, Mich,; Howard L. Clark 2L, Altadena, Calif.; John D. Cochran 3L, Pittsburgh, Pa.; John P. Corcoran, Jr. 3L, Rhinebeck...