Richard Serra: 2022

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A studious view of Richard Serra's recently premiered forged steel sculpture and new drawings using his trademark paintstick technique "Enigmatic, arresting, audacious: Richard Serra now and forever" - The Brooklyn Rail Notions of gravity, density, materiality, and space emerge as major forces behind Richard Serra's hugely successful body of work. Serra's steel sculptures are held in major collections internationally, and his drawings assert themselves as abstract victories. Through the use of black paintstick-a combination of oil paint, wax, and pigment to which he has been faithful since 1971-Serra's drawings present a sense of heaviness through both composition and utilized media. 2022, the artist's largest single forged round to date, investigates properties of weight and scale. While the exhibition allowed viewers to encounter Serra's immense column and inky drawings in relation to their own space and bodies, the catalogue is a venue for intimate engagement with Serra's works through stunning reproductions.

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Richard Serra was born in 1938 in San Francisco and lives and works in New York and the North Fork of Long Island. His first significant solo exhibition was held at the Leo Castelli Warehouse, New York, in 1969. His first solo museum exhibition took place at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1970. Serra has since participated in numerous international exhibitions, including documenta (1972, 1977, 1982, and 1987) in Kassel, Germany; the Venice Biennales of 1980, 1984, 2001, and 2013; and the Whitney Museum of American Art's Annual and Biennial exhibitions of 1968, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1995, and 2006.