Richard Deacon‘s new exhibition at LA Louvre in Los Angeles opened on December 1st. Dead Leg, Deacon’s monumental new sculpture, will span LA Louvre’s first floor gallery. In collaboration with his associate Matthew Perry, Deacon made his massive new sculpture out of twisted oak and stainless steel. Dead Leg is 8 ft high, 28 ft long and 9 ft wide and, following its premiere in LA, it will travel to the Portland Museum of Art. Richard Deacon has enjoyed prominent success over the past three decades. He graduated from the Chelsea College of Art in 1978 and has since worker in sculpture, painting and drawing, dance, and literature, compiling what has become a staggeringly multifaceted portfolio. Deacon won the Turner Prize in 1987 and was also named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by France’s Ministry of Culture in 1997. Deacon lives and works in London but also teaches at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He has shown in countless galleries and museums, including the Tate, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.