Los Angeles Art Shows- Robert Therrien at The Broad

 Art, Art Shows by Location, Artists, California Art Shows, Los Angeles Art Shows, Sculptors / Sculpture
Dec 032025
 

Robert Therrien‘s larger than life sculpture of a table and chairs for Under The Table (1994) has been delighting visitors to The Broad in Los Angeles for years. Robert Therrien: This is a Story, recently opened at the museum is the largest exhibition of the late artist’s work to date.

From The Broad about the exhibition-

Therrien’s meditations on scale and material are a deeply influential and well-known approach within the field of contemporary sculpture, significant to The Broad’s own identity as a museum, and long admired by visitors of all ages. 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.

The exhibition is on view until 5/5/2026.

Robert Gober at Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio

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Nov 262025
 

Robert Gober‘s Untitled, 1993-1994 was on view at Columbus Museum of Art last year, on loan from Art Bridges.

About the sculpture from Art Bridges–

Robert Gober’s Untitled assumes an entirely familiar form that triggers a multi-sensory response. By representing a stick of Breakstone butter, the artist conjures up memories of the food’s texture, aroma, and taste. Gober manipulates these senses with Untitled, leaving the viewer mildly disoriented. Although the object is immediately recognizable, it has no odor, and its glistening beeswax sheen varies slightly from the creamy tactility of actual butter. Significantly, the artist has expanded his representation of butter to roughly the size of a human torso.

The artist’s work often functions with a corporeality that relates to the body, and as Untitled lies unwrapped with its impressionable surface exposed, a commensurate feeling of naked vulnerability is evoked. Because butter can be transformed and clarified, it has associations with spiritual awakening and purity. These notions are echoed in the near-monastic rigor of Gober’s craftsmanship, elevating the familiar object to a profound level.