Richard Serra

Richard Serra was born in San Francisco in 1938. He lives and works in New York and Nova Scotia, Canada.

Art

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A room with a window, white walls, and debris scattered across the cement floor. — Richard Serra

Scatter Piece, 1967
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A low wooden table, on which many small, circular, metal shapes are placed in two rows, sits in a hallway. — Richard Serra

45 maquettes for Torqued Ellipses, 1994–98
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A large circular shape rests on a cement floor and consumes the visible space of a room with wooden ceiling beams and a light-colored brick wall in this black-and-white image. — Richard Serra

Torqued Ellipse I, 1996
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Seven people with safety helmets are gathered around and within two large, curved forms that overlap at one point to create a circular shape in this black-and-white image. — Richard Serra

Torqued Ellipses II, 1996
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A curved dark shape encircles a smaller-but-similar form in this black-and-white image. Several other circular forms are also visible in the background. — Richard Serra

Double Torqued Ellipse, 1997
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Large square windows are evenly spaced along one wall of an industrial room where a row of four large, curved sculptures consume the visible space in this black-and-white image. — Richard Serra

2000, 2000
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A central, slanted, steel form is placed on a cement floor and consumes the visible space of a room with high ceilings and two rows of windows above the form. — Richard Serra

Union of the Torus and the Sphere, 2001
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Room with window, white walls, and slightly slanted, steel slab resting on cement floor — Richard Serra

Elevational Wedge, 2001
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Two parallel walls are painted half black and half white, with black above white on the left wall, and white above black on the right wall, both extending toward but not conjoined by a perpendicular white wall. — Richard Serra

Consequence, 2003
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Exhibitions and Projects

SER_Torqued Ellipses_Bill Jacobson 10.22.2014 HR — Exhibition

Richard Serra

Long-term view, Dia Beacon
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[Need photo credit] — Exhibition

Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses

September 25, 1997–June 14, 1998, Dia Chelsea
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Books

Photo: Don Stahl

Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses

This catalogue captures the extraordinary first installation of the Torqued Ellipses by Richard Serra at Dia in September 1997.

Watch & Listen

Hamilton-Serra — Ann Hamilton on Richard Serra
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Ann Hamilton on Richard Serra

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