Robert Stackhouse

Robert Stackhouse rose to national prominence soon after the opening of his first one-man show in New York in 1976, and by the 1980s he was regarded as one of the country's most eminent young sculptors and has become a major figure on the contemporary art scene. Stackhouse describes his sculpture as a result of twisting a two-dimensional plane into three dimensions. All his projects are site-specific, and every project he makes is a consequence of spacing or massing pieces of wood of equal dimensions but of varying length. The works are always in human proportion, creating an intimate encounter all the more powerful because of the sculpture's modesty of scale, and further enforced by the fact that all of his objects are made to be experienced kinesthetically, placing the viewer on, in and around the structure. (American, born 1942)