ESCONDIDO, CA.- The Californai Center for the Arts, Escondido, presents Therman Statom: Through the Looking Glass, on view through July 4, 2006. This new, cutting-edge display will be exhibited in two of the Museum's galleries. Mixing interactive, site-specific installations composed of bridges, towers and mazes with the collection of painterly large-scale plans for these works, Statom's exhibition will also feature the end result of The Center's first artist residency since 2002.

Statom's innovative use of glass has given him both national and international recognition. With assemblages surreal in scale and unified through an artistic ensemble of wood, glass, metal and plaster, his work is part of numerous prestigious collections including the Detroit Institute of the Arts, the Toledo Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Afro-American Museum of Los Angeles. He currently works between studios in Escondido, Omaha (Nebraska) and Ensenada (Mexico).