Richard Serra
Richard Serra is well known for his large-scale sculptures made for site-specific landscape, urban, and architectural settings. Serra's sculptures are notable for their material quality and exploration of the relationship between the viewer, the work, and the site. Since the mid-1960s, Serra has worked to radicalize and extend the definition of sculpture beginning with his early experiments with rubber, neon, and lead, to his large-scale steel works.
'Obsession is what it comes down to. It is difficult to think without obsession, and it is impossible to create something without a foundation that is rigorous, incontrovertible, and, in fact, to some degree repetitive. Repetition is the ritual of obsession. Repetition is a way to jumpstart the indecision of beginning. To persevere and to begin over and over again is to continue the obsession with work. Work comes out of work. In order to work you must already be working'.
—Richard Serra
Richard Serra (San Francisco CA, 1938-Orient NY, 2024) trained in English Philology at the University of California, Berkeley and in Fine Arts at Yale University. After two years travelling in Europe, he settled in New York. Throughout his career he received numerous awards and his work can be found in museums all over the world.
