Paul Thiebaud Gallery unveils Robert Arneson's "secret history" of the Brick

Paul Thiebaud Gallery announced the opening of Cornerstones – Robert Arneson and the Brick. Featuring more than 25 never before or rarely seen ceramic and bronze sculptures, drawings, and prints, this exhibition is the first to focus on Arneson’s use of the brick as an integral form in the development and trajectory of his career. Employed as canvas, vessel, homage, surrealist expression, monument, conceptual object, and a medium for portraiture, Robert Arneson explored the possibilities of what a brick is and could be in greater dimension and depth than any other artist before him. The exhibition will be on view through May 9, 2026. In the first half of the 1960s, Robert Arneson began investigating the history of ceramics and how the medium influenced the development of western culture. He first hit on the toilet as one of the greatest uses that clay had been used for and filtered that form through the lens of Pop