Published by DelMonico Books. Edited with text by Ed Schad. Foreword by Joanne Heyler. Text by Richard Armstrong, Darby English, Kathryn Scanlon, et al.
This book presents a fresh, accessible and dynamic look at the work of American artist Robert Therrien (1947–2019), surveying over 40 years of his influential work, notably his underseen and understudied late works. Organized chronologically and thematically, emphasizing Therrien's iterative artistic practice of exploring sets of themes over time, the volume speaks to the nature of memory and how it is shaped by space, time and materials, placing his practice within the history of recent sculpture in Los Angeles and elsewhere. The book showcases Therrien's personal vocabulary of forms as they become a personal language of continuous creation for the artist over time. A single Therrien gesture can expand, contract, change materially or seamlessly transform into other images entirely. At the heart of Therrien's practice is a sense of artistic animation, by turns fun, playful and serious.
This book was published in conjunction with The Broad.
Published by Art Gallery of York University. Artwork by Robert Therrien. Contributions by Louis Grachos. Text by Gregory Salzman, Loretta Yarlow.
At once concrete and fanciful, Robert Therrien's photographs and drawings do not so much represent the world as offer a way of looking at it, being in it, and dreaming about it. Dealing magically in objects and the space that surrounds them, his artworks suspend stacks of dishes, slept-on pillows, table legs and gently geomteric patches of color and line in a charmed world that somehow is our own.
Robert Therrien: Polaroids And Drawings
Robert Therrien