Robert Therrien  (1947 – 2019 ) was born in Chicago but made Los Angeles is home for nearly 50 years, living and creating art there. He was part of the city’s tight-knit and experimental art circles of the 1970s, contributing to the rise of fabrication as a way of making increasingly complex works. His career spans much of the recent development of art in Los Angeles, including its escalating prominence as a center of global art making.
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Sean Scully’s Broadway Shuffle Sculpture in Dante Park
The only negative thing about walking by this colorful and quite monumental stacked sculpture in the Lincoln Center neighborhood this past week is that my photos were captured on an overcast day –which definitely does the sculpture a disservice.
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Andy Warhol, Mylar and Plexiglass Construction
A hybrid of Pop and Minimalist aesthetics, this stacked sculpture, Mylar and Plexiglass Construction (1970) relates to Andy Warhol’s Mylar Silver Clouds from 1966 and extends his interest in seriality, color and the readymade into three-dimensional space.
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