So Near, So Far—the first solo museum exhibition of Los Angeles artist and designer Ryan Preciado—features newly commissioned furniture, lighting, and sculpture that emerged from Preciado’s dialogue with the story of Manuel Sandoval, a twentieth-century Nicaraguan-American carpenter.

Sandoval’s work brought him into contact with key figures of modern American architecture. He was a member of the Taliesin fellowship and collaborator of Frank Lloyd Wright, R.M. Schindler, and Alvin Lustig. Sandoval’s ambivalent experience of these partnerships draws attention to the silences of architecture’s traditional archives and invites new reflection on what it means to create in dialogue with others.