We just lost Richard Serra
🚀 Richard Serra - Wikipedia
From a young age, he was encouraged to draw by his mother. The young Serra would carry a small notebook for his sketches and his mother would introduce her son as “Richard the artist.” His father worked as a pipe fitter for a shipyard near San Francisco. Serra recounts a memory of a visit to the shipyard to see a boat launch when he was four years old. He watched as the ship transformed from an enormous weight to a buoyant, floating structure and notes that: “All the raw material that I needed is contained in the reserve of this memory.
Richard Sierra died March 26, 2024, at the age of 85. I’ve been lucky enough to enjoy his work at the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum.
Vita brevis, ars longa.
