sᴇʟᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ᴀʀᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ: ʀɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ sᴇʀʀᴀ, ɢᴜᴛᴛᴇʀ ᴄᴏʀɴᴇʀ sᴘʟᴀsʜ: ɴɪɢʜᴛ sʜɪғᴛ (ғᴏʀᴍᴇʀʟʏ ᴛɪᴛʟᴇᴅ sᴘʟᴀsʜ ᴘɪᴇᴄᴇ: ᴄᴀsᴛɪɴɢ), 1969/95


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             Early Career
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born in San Francisco in 1939

1961 - study at University of California at Berkley
and Santa Barbara, degree in English literature

BFA, MFA from Yale

final year, work as instructor and assist Josef Albers
on The Interaction of Color

1965 - Yale awarded travel fellowship, spent a year in 
Paris, travels in Athens, Istanbul, Fulbright grant
allow year in Florence, exhibit series of Habitats

1967 - return to US, rubber and neon tubing in sculptures,
then cast and molten lead

1968-69 - sign with Leo Castelli Gallery, exhibit lead 
rolls, props at Guggenheim and  Whitney Museum of
American Art

lead sheets rolled up (in 2 or 3), placed on floor

Cor-Ten steel sculptures with support of LA County
Museum of Art

accept major commissions from 1960s, public work
for Federal Plaza in NYC, install long wall of steel

1970s - drawings and prints, often in jet black pigments


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               Analysis
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splash piece - fling molten lead at gutter, first in 1968
at Leo Castelli's warehouse space for group exhibition
organized by Robert Morris

solo show at Castelli over next year

photographs in Life Magazine in 1970

outdoors at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (with help
of composer Philip Glass), Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland
for exhibition Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become
Form, include Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Eva Hesse,
Sol leWitt, Joseph Kosuth, Morris

1969 - install splash piece in john John's NY studio, use
3000 lbs of lead

1991 - donate to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1995 - recreate work, retitled Gutter Corner Splash, Night
Shift, permanent installation

lead splashed up walls, 7 long sculptures


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   Reaction to Minimalism

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early work typically characterized as "process art"

1967 - wrote list of verbs , published in Conceptual magazine
Avalanche, now in MoMA's collection

attended many performances staged by Judson Dance Theater
in early 1960s

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