The following is excerpted from "Romance of Structure" by Victor M. Cassidy, Chicago:

Robert Stackhouse is the artist who builds large wooden A-frame constructions. A relatively small number of people have actually seen a Stackhouse sculpture because they are up for a short time, often on college campuses, and then dismantled. We know this work through photographs -- and the artist's drawings, watercolors and prints.

"Drawing is an integral part of my work," Stackhouse has written. "Source drawings, plans for sculptural projects and documentations of finished installations fill the majority of my studio time. Because I originally studied painting, I conceive of my sculptures two dimensionally rather than in three dimensions....