This is a Story Robert Therrien installation view. Photo by Joshua White

Artist Robert Therrien’s meditations on scale and material are a deeply influential and well-known approach within the field of contemporary sculpture. The installation showcases Therrien’s personal vocabulary of images and symbols – from enormous tables, chairs, and dishes, to intimate drawings of snowmen, birds, and chapels – as they become a language of continuous creation and transformation for the artist over time. Featuring more than 120 works spanning five decades, the exhibition offers unprecedented access to the artist’s exploration of scale, memory, and perception, just miles from the downtown Los Angeles home and studio space he operated out of for close to thirty years beginning in 1990. Many of the works on view, including those created just before Therrien’s untimely death in 2019, have never been featured in museum exhibitions and will offer new avenues of understanding his practice.

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