Month: April 2019

To engage this spectral figure will require us to open ourselves to the effects of certain traits which I want to gather together under one word. And that word – whose introduction here will no doubt be troublesome to many – is “magic.” Something on the order of magic – unreal, phantasmic, hallucinatory, perhaps even… Continue reading Spectral figure

Many of Therrien’s sculptures are polychromed and the use of a painted surface over a sculptural form (largely rejected by minimalist sculpture), if followed in one direction, leads back to traditional folk art and religious statuary, both of which relied on colour to heighten the emotionality of the experience and to enhance the viewer’s identification… Continue reading Many of Therrien’s sculptures