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1939 San Francisco, California - 2024 Orient, New York. Known for: Site-specific geometric sculpure, monumental abstraction.
"Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85," Obituary, The New York Times, by Roberta Smith, March 26, 2024. His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other... Read full biography
"Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85," Obituary, The New York Times, by Roberta Smith, March 26, 2024. His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be... Read full biography
"Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85," Obituary, The New York Times, by Roberta Smith, March 26, 2024. His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced. Richard Serra, who set out to become a painter but instead became one of his era’s greatest sculptors, inventing a monumental environment of immense tilting corridors, ellipses and... Read full biography
"Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85," Obituary, The New York Times, by Roberta Smith, March 26, 2024. His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced. Richard Serra, who set out to become a painter but instead became one of his era’s greatest sculptors, inventing a monumental environment of immense tilting corridors, ellipses and spirals of steel that gave the medium both a new abstract grandeur and a new physical intimacy, died on Tuesday at his home in Orient, N.Y., on the North Fork of Long Island. He was 85. The cause was pneumonia, John Silberman, his lawyer, said. Mr.... Read full biography
"Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85," Obituary, The New York Times, by Roberta Smith, March 26, 2024. His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced. Richard Serra, who set out to become a painter but instead became one of his era’s greatest sculptors, inventing a monumental environment of immense tilting corridors, ellipses and spirals of steel that gave the medium both a new abstract grandeur and a new physical intimacy, died on Tuesday at his home in Orient, N.Y., on the North Fork of Long Island. He was 85. The cause was pneumonia, John Silberman, his lawyer, said. Mr. Serra’s most celebrated works had some of the scale of ancient temples or sacred sites and the inscrutability of landmark... Read full biography
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"Richard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85," Obituary, The New York Times, by Roberta Smith, March 26, 2024
His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced.
Richard Serra, who set out to become a painter but instead became one of his era’s greatest sculptors, inventing a monumental environment of immense tilting corridors, ellipses and spirals of steel that gave the medium both a new abstract grandeur and a new physical intimacy, died on Tuesday at his home in Orient, N.Y., on the North Fork of Long Island. He was 85.
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