Richard Serra Minimalist Line Drawings charcoal and paintstick

Richard Serra, Minimalist

Line Drawings, charcoal and paintstick Example viewing for scale September, 2001, 50” x 51”, charcoal on paper,

From series of circle drawings done at Gemini G. E. L. from 1990 -early 2000 (an artists‘ workshop and publisher of limited edition prints and sculptures located at 8365 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles CA Untitled, 1971 Double Torqued Ellipses, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2005; paintstick on paper; 12 ¼ x 14 ½ inches

Prop Series, 1968 - 1970 “Making was reduced to the most rudimentary and fundamental of processes, such as rolling or leaning. ” • • • Artistic skill & expertise played down Transparent view as to how the sculpture remains upright Soft lead allows deformation leading to tension for the viewer

Architectural Installation and Early Paper Work Drawings After Circuit, paintstick on paper , 1972 Schulhof's Curve, 1984, steel

Monolithic plates. Delineator forces the viewer to “acknowledge the space above, below, right, left, north, east, south, west, up, down. ” Double level, 2009 paint stick 67. 5 x 65 in. Delineator, each piece 2. 5 tons 1974 -75, Mo. MA

Charlie Brown, 2000, steel. Sixty foot tall San Francisco installation completed the day Charles Shultz died

Band, 2006 Broad Contemporary Art Museum. Twelve feet high and more than 70 feet long, it took 2. 5 years to develop and required the shaping of 200 tons of hot steel down to a single millimeter.

Sequence, completed in 2006, photo is after final installation at Stanford in 2011. Walls are approximately 13 feet tall, structure weighs 235 tons.

Torqued Torus Inversions, 2006, steel Resides in Mo. MA

Pickham Mill, Siegen, Germany

Pickham Mill, Siegen, Germany