The artist Thomas Houseago was born in West Yorkshire and went to Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He then moved to Amsterdam to study at De Ateliers, where as a young man he met the likes of Luc Tuymans, Marlene Dumas, and Thomas Schutte, and looked upon their art with awe. After an eight year stint in Brussels, Houseago moved to Los Angeles, where his practice—figurative sculptures cast in bronze—matured. The artist, now 52, recently began to talk about the abuse he suffered when very very young, and the way trauma has haunted his life and work. Art, which had been his lifejacket, came to seem a repository of demons. After much time in treatment, Houseago now brings vital new sculptures and a remarkable tapestry work to three floors of the Beaux Arts townhouse on 64th Street. Commenting on the works in “Night Sea Journey,” the actor Leonardo DiCaprio, a close friend, told Vulture magazine, “I got to watch his artistry slowly materialize. It was like bearing witness to a man’s metamorphosis from a self-realized Dante’s Inferno. Even though the work was rooted in an apocalyptic darkness, it simultaneously embraced a rebirth.” —Elena Clavarino