Ron Therrio · Embodiments

Opening Reception
September 5, 2026 | 4–8PM

On View
Through September 27, 2026

Compound YV is pleased to present Embodiments, a solo exhibition featuring work by Ron Therrio, opening September 5, 2026.

Creator and seeker, avid surfer and musician, Ron Therrio’s life of learning has taken shape across Southern California’s industrial landscape in carpentry, petroleum refineries, chemical plants and shipyards, and as a sculptor for film and architecture, graphic artist, draftsman, and model-maker. For Therrio, the limitation of materials is where creativity happens: the demand for focus facilitates a meditative process, a means of visioning and accessing alternate realities and deeper truths.

Embodiments draws on associations, symbolism, graphic imagery, texture, and physical form in which each viewer is free to build their own narrative. The artist’s process and hand-work is visible in carved surfaces and textures. Striations of wood grain suggest the deep time of geology. His abstract figures evoke other-than-human spirits, talismans, and totems. They prompt reflection on the connections between the disciplined focus of work and the pursuit of enlightenment. Multilayered storylines arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned. A place where space becomes time and language becomes image.