The sculptor Robert Therrien (1947–2019) was interested in “subjects with fables attached.” He liked objects that had universally recognizable shapes and intrinsic beauty. Therrien grew up in Chicago in the 1950s and moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s, where he began making modestly sized handmade objects. By the end of the decade, his work had expanded to an industrial scale, and was becoming figurative. “As my work becomes less and less abstract in appearance—its shape more obviously derived from common objects—it also gets more thickly surrounded by abstractions,” he once explained, “in the sense of the associations or ideas it may refer to.” This large retrospective brings together 120 works spanning five decades. —Elena Clavarino