Ryan Preciado Is Marrying Sculpture, Design, and Conceptual Art—And Finding a Wide Audience

A few years ago, Ryan Preciado began frequenting a hardware store less than a mile from his main studio in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Arlington Heights. Slowly, he began befriending the family who runs the shop. When the store got busy, Preciado started browsing its wares, “picking up little things I thought were pretty sculptural,” he said during an interview at his studio this past summer. “I’d bring them over to the owner, and we’d talk about them a bit in S