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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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Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
- •Site Specific Artwork
Art Media
- •Aluminum/Aluminium
- •Charcoal
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Magic Marker, Sharpie, Felt-Tip Pen
- •Metal, Metalwork, Metal Plates, Metal Point
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
- •Steel, Stainless Steel
- •Video Art, Documentary Photo, Cinema, Filmmaking
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Geometric Abstraction, Linear, Grids, Hard Edge
- •Post-Minimalist
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art Subject
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Art Teacher
- •Josef Albers
Art School
- •Yale University School of Fine Art and Architecture, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Dia Art Foundation Support
- •Fulbright Grant, Fellowship
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
- •Storm King Art Center Sculpture Installation, New York
- •UBS-Paine Webber Collection
Added Description
- •Abstract Sculpture Specialty
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art