WILSHIRE CENTER

Bruce Fuller lives in a tent in Northern California and his unorthodox life style is reflected in his sculpture. Working with a variety of lustrous marbles that he quarries in a pit near his home, Fuller fashions elegant relics with a rustic austerity evocative of Georgia O’Keeffe. Perusing Fuller’s current body of work is like strolling through an elegant ghost town way out West; there’s a bleached purity about this work, which seems to resonate with the innocence of the dead.

Fuller is big on skulls--cow and human--and he’s also keen on anatomical accuracy; his skulls are often detailed down to the last pitted molar. The show also includes a stone ring that is suspended from the ceiling in a hangman’s noose, and what looks like a window of an 18th-Century jail cell. Considering his home, it’s peculiar to find that windows are a recurring motif in Fuller’s work. But a man who chooses to live in a tent has obviously given an unusual amount of thought to the idea of confinement; he expresses some of those ideas quite eloquently in a few of these pieces. (Richard/Bennett Gallery, 332 1/2 N. La Brea Ave., to Feb. 28.)