- published: 21 May 2011
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Richard Serra (born November 2, 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement.
His father was Spanish native of Mallorca and mother was Russian in Odessa (committed suicide in 1979). Serra was born in San Francisco and he went on to study English literature at the University of California, Berkeley and later at the University of California, Santa Barbara between 1957 and 1961. While at Santa Barbara, he studied art with Howard Warshaw and Rico Lebrun. On the West Coast, he helped support himself by working in steel mills, which was to have a strong influence on his later work. Serra discussed his early life and influences in an interview in 1993. He described the San Francisco shipyard where his father worked as a pipe-fitter as another important influence to his work, saying of his early memory: “All the raw material that I needed is contained in the reserve of this memory which has become a reoccurring dream.”
Actors: Bruce Bassett (producer), Bruce Bassett (director), Bruce Bassett (writer), John J. Martin (editor), Richard Serra (actor), Mark Di Suvero (actor), Louise Nevelson (actress), J. Eric Johnson (composer), Nancy G. Kennedy (editor), David Smith (actor), Kenneth Snelson (actor), Diana MacKown (producer), Richard Bellamy (producer),
Genres: Documentary,