American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement
May 15 - August 24, 2003

Therman Statom
House On Fire
Painted plate glass
1987 20.75 x 14.5 x 11.25

Therman Statom (born 1953; resides Escondido, CA)

Influenced by his boyhood neighbor, painter, Kenneth Noland, Therman Statom entered the world of art by studying glass at the Pilchuck Glass School in 1971, and earning a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1974 and an M.F.A. from the Pratt Institute of Art and Design in 1978. Statom has taught at Pilchuck and the University of California, Los Angeles. Among his awards figure a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Statom has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows ranging from Painting on Glass, New York Experimental Glass Workshop, in 1986, to International Directions in Glass Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1982. Statom has received over a dozen commissions for permanent large-scale site-specific installations including those at the Los Angeles Central Public Library, the Los Angeles County Metro Rail Westlake/MacArthur Park Station, and in 1996, Hydra at the Toledo Museum of Art, which incorporated works from the museum’s permanent collection including paintings by Van Gogh and Cézanne and an enormous cut glass punch bowl made by Libbey Glass for the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. Permanent museum collections include the the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the American Craft Museum in New York City, and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France. Statom is best known for his painted ladders, houses, chairs, tables, and boxes, constructed out of window glass, plywood, and found objects.

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