“Therman Statom: Colecciones de Estudio de Invierno”
June 13 @ 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm
“Colecciones de Estudio de Invierno” brings together new and recent work by Omaha sculptor and glass artist Therman Statom, one of the defining figures of the contemporary glass movement. The title points to the nature of the work itself: Pieces that emerged from sustained studio practice, gathered here as a kind of personal inventory, objects that carry the accumulation of a long creative life. The exhibition runs through Sept. 26. Note: The museum closes one hour early on Sundays at 6 p.m.
Statom works by cutting, painting, and assembling sheets of plate glass, gluing them together into large-scale sculptural forms—chairs, ladders, houses, wall-mounted constructions—and sandblasting their surfaces into canvases for color and line. Found objects enter the work along the way, adding texture and narrative. The resulting pieces are at once structural and painterly, drawing from the gestural energy of Abstract Expressionism and the economy of Minimalism without settling comfortably into either tradition.
