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	Richard Serra -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Richard Serra (born 2 November 1939) is an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism) minimalist (An artist who creates sculptures) sculptor known for working with large scale assemblies of (Sheet of metal formed into a thin plate) sheet metal.
		Serra's earliest work was (Click link for more info and facts about abstract expressionist) abstract expressionist made from molten (A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull gray) lead hurled in large splashes against the wall of the studio.
		Serra was one of the first artists to have a public work of art physically rejected by the public.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/richard_serra.htm (403 words)

	ipedia.com: Richard Serra Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Richard Serra (born 2 November 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal.
		Serra was bron in San Francisco and he went on to study English literature at the University of California at Berkeley and later at the UC Santa Barbara between 1957 and 1961.
		Serra's earliest work was abstract expressionist made from molten lead hurled in large splashes against the wall of the studio.
	www.ipedia.com /richard_serra.html (364 words)

	Richard Serra Biography
		For Serra, that meant that what was paramount was the relationship of the body of the viewer and the change of his body's spatial movement over time operating in tandem framing and reframing the subject and the site.
		Serra's basic syntax is one of point load, balance, counter-balance, and leverage.
		As determined at random by the artist, Serra would either pour the molten material or rub the solid material onto a plate flat on the floor of the studio, thus permitting him to press the material through an aluminum screen, often using his feet.
	www.mbergerart.com /serra/about.htm (782 words)

	Addison serves up a weighty subject (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		An influential moment in the life of artist Richard Serra was when his father brought him to a shipyard to watch the launching of a tanker ship.
		Serra writes that he watched the massive, steel behemoth roll down the landing, splash into the water, yet be buoyant.
		Serra smears paint and other media on top of some of the prints, giving some the appearance of the steel plates he works with, says Kemmerer.
	www.andovertownsman.com /news/20031211/AE_001.html (491 words)

	Culture Shock: Flashpoints: Visual Arts: Richerd Serra's Tilted Arc
		According to Serra, this is the point, "The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza.
		Richard Serra testifies that the sculpture is site-specific, and that to remove it from its site is to destroy it.
		The role of government funding, an artist's rights to his or her work, the role of the public in determining the value of a work of art, and whether public art should be judged by its popularity are all heatedly debated.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/visualarts/tiltedarc_a.html (513 words)

	Richard Serra Press
		Richard Serra's "Carnegie" (1984-85) is, with Louise Bourgeois' fountain (1999) in Donwtown's Katz Plaza, one of the two great modern sculptures in the city of Pittsburgh.
		Serra himself has said, "I think sculpture, if it has any potential at all, has the potential to create its own space, and to work in contradiction to the places and spaces where it is created.
		Serra calls these etchings, which are fl on white paper, "one-color," an attempt to avoid implications that the idea of fl might convey.
	www.mbergerart.com /serra/trib.htm (690 words)

	Caste: Exposicion: Richard Serra: Contenido
		One of the most preeminent sculptors of the twentieth century, Richard Serra has long been acclaimed for his challenging and innovative work which emphasizes the process of its fabrication, characteristics of materials, and an engagement with viewer and site.
		For the past two decades Serra has focused primarily on large-scale, site-specific works which create a dialogue with a particular architectural, urban, or landscape setting and in so doing redefine that space and the viewer's perception of it.
		Serra's ongoing series of Torqued Ellipses, eight of which are included in the exhibition, remain tied to the artistic vocabulary Serra has developed over the past thirty years, but also reflect a significant departure.
	www.guggenheim-bilbao.es /ingles/exposiciones/serra/contenido.htm (1166 words)

	david cohen on richard serra at gagosian gallery, harvey quaytman at mckee gallery, stephen westfall at lennon, weinberg
		Serra, seems entirely at ease these days with tilt and rust; they are the device and patina of choice.
		Serra is the type of artist who has always sought to shake his audience from complacency.
		Serra participated in the diminution of his own aura in a brave but consequential gesture that, together with his recent work, forces a new consideration of the earlier: He re-enacted his legendary lead-wielding antics, only this time - in harmony with Mr.
	www.artcritical.com /DavidCohen/SUN20.htm (1086 words)

	KQED \| Public TV: Spark: Richard Serra
		Richard Serra is perhaps the most recognized site-specific artist in the world.
		Serra's design for UCSF is composed of two steel plates nearly 50-feet by almost 15-feet wide, installed vertically in the main pedestrian walkway.
		In 1994 Serra was awarded the Praemium Imperiale by the Japan Art Association and an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts (now known as the California College of the Arts) in Oakland.
	www.kqed.org /spark/artists-orgs/richardser.jsp (370 words)

	Richard Serra Online
		Richard Serra at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
		Richard Serra copyright requests handled by the Artists Rights Society.
		All images and text on this Richard Serra page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/serra_richard.html (415 words)

	Serra Sculpture Park
		The installation of Richard Serra's sculpture "Twain" in 1982 sparked the latest controversy in the history of criticism of public art in St. Louis parks.
		While Serra encouraged everyone to "experience" his scultpure, it is the park employees who maintain the art work who have “experienced” the piece more than any art lover.
		From cutting the grass, both in the center and outside of the work, to removing the graffiti that accumulates on a regular basis, park employees are the curators of the piece.
	stlouis.missouri.org /citygov/parks/parks_div/serra.html (586 words)

	Art lives in New York City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Serra has worked with steel his whole life—the son of a factory worker, he helped rivet a skyscraper in San Francisco in his youth—and there’s pain in his eyes when he describes a piece he saw recently: “I go for a walk in the morning along the West Side Highway.
		Serra witnessed the attacks, and knows they will change his work, but he doesn’t know how—except that he will not depict anything.
		Richard Serra’s “Torqued Spirals, Toruses, and Spheres” is at the Gagosian Gallery, 555 W 24th St, until Dec. 15.
	www.msnbc.com /news/656101.asp (1001 words)

	Richard Serra
		He claimed that because the sculpture was site-specific, to remove it would be the equivalent of destroying the piece. In addition Serra filed a $30 million lawsuit against the GSA to prevent the government agency from removing the sculpture.
		Minimalism, the seemingly logical extension of Greenbergian ideology, was a movement preoccupied with Modernist goals of reduction and simplification (in the rhetoric of Geometric Abstraction) of painting and sculpture. Minimalism's artistic pedigree descends from Constructivism of the early 20th century, but is the first international art movement pioneered exclusively by American-born artists (Atkins 99).
		Serra continued working at numerous manual labor jobs throughout his career between creating artworks.
	www.law.harvard.edu /faculty/martin/art_law/tilted_arc.htm (604 words)

	Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After financing his college degree by working in steel mills, Serra adopted steel as his preferred material in the late sixties: he has continued to use it in different ways, propped, bent, forged, and rolled for over three decades.
		Most recently, as his contribution to the current Sculpture Projects in Münster, Germany, Serra was commissioned to make a permanent installation at one of that city's most renowned historic buildings, the Haus Rüschhaus designed by the Baroque architect J.C. Schlaun.
		Serra recently installed Snake, a 100-feet-long, 13-feet-high sculpture commissioned by the Guggenheim's new museum in Bilbao.
	www.diacenter.org /dia/press/serra.html (586 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| Man of steel
		Richard Serra's new installation at the Bilbao Guggenheim is courageous, sublime - and even puts Frank Gehry's architecture in the shade.
		But Serra's work, in all the gloomy or lambent richness of its weathered steel - now as red as one of John Ford's sunset buttes in Monument Valley, now as fl as the hull of a stricken tanker - is singularly enriched by colour.
		Serra even claims he doesn't pick his plates for their colour, which may be true but is a bit hard to credit.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1511714,00.html (1336 words)

	artSEENsoho - Richard Serra at Gagosian Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Richard Serra: New Sculpture Oct 24-Dec 14 '96
		Richard Serra: The focus of the art for me is the experience of living through the pieces, and that experience may have very little to do with physical facts of the work of art, very little to do with that.
		Everybody has their own language structure that they put in it - they run it on a tape loop in their head - and what that does, those kinds of intentions, is to preclude people from experiencing the work.
	www.artseensoho.com /Art/GAGOSIAN/serra96/serrainfo.html (143 words)

	ABC News: Guggenheim Hosts Major Serra Exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sculptor Richard Serra, right, signs an autograph at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Tuesday June 7, 2005, where he is to open his exhibit of eight giant oxidized steel sculptures called, 'The Matter of Time', Wednesday June 8.
		Known by his colleagues as the "poet of iron," Serra was closely identified with the minimalist movement of the 1970s.
		Serra had worked early on in the steel foundries of the West Coast of the United States to help finance his education at the University of California at the Berkeley and Santa Barbara campuses.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=865285 (409 words)

	Art in America: Richard Serra at Dia - New York, New York - Review of Exhibitions - Brief Article
		Ten years ago, in a much-quoted interview, Richard Serra related one of his earliest recollections, of watching a boat launching in San Francisco at daybreak.
		He was four, and the tanker seemed "as large as a skyscraper on its side." Serra remembers "walking the arc of the hull with my father," and also "a total incongruity between the displacement of this enormous tonnage and the quickness and agility with which the task" of removing the shoring props was carried out.
		Serra himself cites the oval dome of Borromini's Baroque church of San Carlo in Rome, and also Zen gardens, as precedents for the soaring, twisting space his new work creates, and for its basis in walked-through experience.
	www.findarticles.com /cf_dls/m1248/n2_v86/20333110/p1/article.jhtml (616 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Reviews - artnet.com Magazine Reviews - David Ebony's Top Ten
		Minimalist maestro Richard Serra closes out the millennium with a double show featuring an impressive group of works on paper and one of the largest and most majestic sculptures of his career.
		While some of Serra's detractors may complain that the recent sculpture is just "more of the same -- only bigger," the work, one of his most architectonic, represents an important breakthrough for the artist.
		Richard Serra, "Switch," Nov. 17,1999- Feb. 26, 2000, at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, N.Y. 10011, and "Out-of-round," Nov. 20, 1999-Jan. 14, 2000, at Gagosian, 980 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. artnet.com
	www.artnet.com /magazine/reviews/ebony/ebony(1)12-24-99.asp (356 words)

	Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Serra - Biography
		In 1964 and 1965, Serra traveled to Paris on a Yale Traveling Fellowship, where he frequently visited the reconstruction of Constantin Brancusi’s studio at the Musée National d’Art Moderne.
		Serra was honored with solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany, in 1978; the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, in 1984; the Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, in 1985; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1986.
		Serra has continued to exhibit in both group and solo shows in such venues as Leo Castelli Gallery and Gagosian Gallery, New York.
	www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_144A.html (603 words)

	Mira Godard Gallery Artists: Richard Serra
		The 1990s saw further honors for Serra’s work: a retrospective of his drawings at the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; the Wilhelm Lehmbruck prize for sculpture in Duisburg in 1991; and the following year, a retrospective at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
		In 1993, Serra was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
		Richard Serra’s work is found in most major museum collections around the world.
	www.godardgallery.com /serra.htm (159 words)

	Richard Serra artist and art...the-artists.org
		Sculptor Richard Serra was interviewed by Mark Simmons at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, just prior to the opening of Serra's show at the Museum's Geffen Contemporary building.
		Richard Serra was born November 2, 1939, in San Francisco.
		While working in steel mills to support himself, Serra attended the University of California at Berkeley and Santa Barbara from 1957 to 1961, receiving a B.A. in English literature...
	the-artists.org /ArtistView.cfm?id=239B6573-C5CF-11D4-A93800D0B7069B40 (283 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Writings/Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Through writings and interviews, Serra chronicles not only his evolution as an artist but also touches on some of the responses inspired by the large site-specific urban sculptures for which he is best known.
		The removal of Serra's Tilted Arc from Federal Plaza in New York City was one of the seminal events in recent art censorship history, particularly because the controversy focused strictly on the "artistic merit" of the work and not issues such as pornography or politics.
		Mostly large, site-specific steel structures, Serra's work has a way of raising hackles as well as the question, "What is art?" Containing material that ranges from 1967 to the present, this collection of interviews and essays...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0226748804 (541 words)

	Richard Serra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Since the mid-1970s Richard Serra has been exploring the sculptural fundamentals of mass and gravity to create sculpture that produces a simultaneous sense of balance and precariousness.
		Prop (1968), for example, consists of a 60-inch-square sheet of lead that is held flat against the gallery wall and about three feet off the floor by a rolled lead cylinder that leans against it.
		The apparent instability of this arrangement leads the viewer to focus on the weight of the lead sheet and on the simultaneous assertion and defiance of the force of gravity.
	www.evl.uic.edu /mariar/WAC/MSG_ARTISTS/ref_msg_serra.html (138 words)

	Richard Serra and W. Eugene Smith, retrospective catalogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Serra book takes on the usually unenviable task of attempting to put sculpture into two dimensions, a task made all the more difficult when the sculpture is of the monumental scale that Serra works in.
		Working in weatherproof steel, Serra assembles plates and beams into what might be termed abstractions except that the final works alter their spaces recognizably: sometimes like rooms, sometimes like structural elements of unfinished buildings, and, when arranged in the landscape, like trees and boulders, without ever being imitations of any of these things.
		The photographs by Dirk Reinartz, all of them fl and white, serve the dual purposes of recording the shapes of Serra's austere works with accuracy, and of providing counterparts to the sculpture that are themselves austerely beautiful essays in form.
	home.att.net /~jamestata/smith_serra_review.html (643 words)

	Richard Serra ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Richard Serra - Mozarabe 1971 steel The Detroit Institute of Art American
		Francis Wheatley - The Death of King Richard II c.
		Wurm's sculptures are wrought from the human body choreographed into absurd, witty and often perilous, relationships with objects of everyday life - vegetables, crockery, chairs, cardboard boxes, brooms, balls, and bicycles.
	wwar.com /masters/s/serra-richard.html (897 words)

	Torqued Ellipses Acquisition Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dia Center for the Arts announced the acquisition of Richard Serra's group of three "Torqued Ellipses." This represents the first major addition to Dia's collection since 1984.
		Richard Serra's "Torqued Ellipses" is the result of four years of research, and marks a new departure in the artist's oeuvre.
		In the fall of 1998, "Torqued Ellipses" will travel to Los Angeles where they will be exhibited at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA as part of a large retrospective of works by Richard Serra.
	www.diacenter.org /dia/press/serraacquisition.html (508 words)

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