08/12/2025
With sadness, immense gratitude, and celebration, we remember Frank Gehry (1929–2025).
“Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children—for anyone. It still does for me.” - Frank Gehry
Gehry reshaped how we think about buildings, with Guggenheim Bilbao, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and so many others, he proved that architecture could be both civic landmark and living sculpture. His work bent metal and light into motion, expanding what a city, museum, concert hall or home could feel like.
That sense of movement had a quiet, personal origin: the carp he watched as a child swirling in his grandmother’s bathtub. The fish became a kind of lifelong companion in his imagination: an emblem of fluidity, light on scales, and forms that flex rather than follow the straight line. It surfaces again and again in his buildings, public sculptures, and studio works, where structure and sculpture fuse into one continuous flowing gesture.
The work we’re honored to have on view, Frank Gehry, Untitled (London I), 2013, belongs to that same current. Metal wire traces a drawing in space, while planes of ColorCore-formica catch and release light like a creature turning just beneath the surface. It’s not simply a model or a fragment, but a concentrated glimpse of the energy that runs through his most iconic projects.
We share this piece with deep gratitude for Gehry’s extraordinary contributions to art and architecture. His work leaves us with a living legacy: cities that feel more open and alive, generations of artists and architects who have drawn courage from his example, and a reminder that even the most radical forms can grow from something small, personal, and spiritual. His influence endures in every curve of metal and every flicker of light that still makes us stop, look up, and feel wonder.
