For Wurtz, self-knowledge is not found on a psychoanalyst’s couch or a remote mountaintop, but in the things with which we surround ourselves. LOS ANGELES — Taking Duchamp as a starting point, B.

B. Wurtz uses humble, everyday materials — plastic bags, aluminum pans — and turns them into something beautiful. Here, his life in five artworks. By Andrew Russeth One afternoon this past September, ...