Both sculptor and painter, Robert Stackhouse has exhibited his work in museums and galleries across the United States. Typically, he works with passage structures and deals with themes of transition and journeys. Stackhouse's concerns with functional beauty, craft, ritual, and mystery remain fresh, evocative, and unforced after many years of exploration. His work evolved into a fascination with simple forms-the classic A-frame structure and the Viking ship. "The A-frame became a sort of signature with me," he notes. Many of his indoor and outdoor sculptures and installations are variations on this popular vernacular structure. They are explorations formed with slats of wood which seem simultaneously monumental and ephemeral. The form of the structures speaks of solidity and power while the slats with spaces in between create a sensation of lightness and openness.