Richard Serra was an American sculptor who lived from 1938 to 2024, trained in English literature before turning to visual art and earning an MFA from Yale in 1964, and became one of his era's greatest sculptors through large-scale, site-specific abstract works associated with postminimalism and process art. His major pieces include Tilted Arc in Manhattan, Shift in Ontario, The Matter of Time at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and landscape works such as Te Tuhirangi Contour in New Zealand and East-West/West-East in Qatar, all exploring the relationship between viewer, work and site.
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Richard Serra was an American artist known for his large-scale abstract sculptures made for site-specific landscape, urban, and architectural settings, and whose work has been primarily associated with postminimalism.
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