In the 1960s, when Larry Bell was an emerging artist hanging out with Ed Ruscha, Robert Irwin, and Ed Moses in Venice Beach, he worked at a commercial framing store. One day at work, Bell watched light reflect off the glass in a metal frame and was fascinated. A longtime painter, he pivoted to glass work and became a pioneer of the West Coast Light and Space movement. While day jobs are often cast as distractions that keep artists from their true work, a new exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art frames these jobs as hidden sources of inspiration. The show features 75 works by emerging artists (such as Jay Lynn Gomez) and celebrated older ones (Bell, Genesis Belanger, Jeffrey Gibson). All have held full-time or part-time jobs. Think lawyer, dishwasher, hair stylist, etc. —Jensen Davis