March 14 – May 06, 2006

Opening reception: March 18, 6–8 pm

Artist Talk: Dana Friis-Hansen, Executive Director of the Austin Museum of Art, 6:30 pm

Lora Reynolds Gallery is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition by internationally recognized artist Robert Therrien.

Over the years Robert Therrien has developed a visual vocabulary of motifs that he continuously transforms and restates. Often tied to familiar themes from the era of his childhood, his subjects range from silhouetted profiles to grid-like pinochle scorecards to softly rendered running feet. His imagery is at once representational, abstract, nostalgic and uncanny. The exhibition will include 6 sculptural works and 14 drawings.

For Therrien the relationship between drawing, painting and sculpture is fluid. He chooses shapes accordingly for their ability to function within multiple dimensions. The images within his lexicon are in a perpetual state of flux as they shift from two to three dimensions within a variety of media. Perhaps best known for his replicas of everyday objects, Robert Therrien's practice includes a preoccupation with manipulating scale or as he puts it "points of view". Exemplified in this exhibition will be an eight-foot cast aluminum oil can and an eight-inch drawing of the same subject. Reinterpretations of all of the motifs included in this exhibition can be found again and again scattered throughout his studio. He extracts the extraordinary from the ordinary while continuing to explore and offer endless interpretations from within his personal world.

Robert Therrien has been recognized as one of the most innovative and unique American artists working today. His work is in the collection of many major public and private collections internationally, including the Centre Pomipdou, Paris; Dallas Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Whitney Museum, New York.