That year, Serra was included in Nine Young Artists: Theodoron Awards at the Solomon R. Serra had his first solo exhibition in the United States at the Leo Castelli Warehouse, New York City.īy 1969 he had begun the prop pieces, whose parts are not welded together or otherwise attached but are balanced solely by forces of weight and gravity.
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From 1968 to 1970 he executed a series of Splash pieces, in which molten lead was splashed or cast into the junctures between floor and wall. In 1966 Serra made his first sculptures out of nontraditional materials such as fiberglass and rubber. Later that year, he moved to New York City, where his circle of friends included artists Carl Andre, Walter De Maria, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Smithson. The young artist was given his first solo exhibition at Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy, in 1966. He spent much of the following year in Florence, Italy, on a Fulbright grant, and traveled throughout southern Europe and In 19, on a Yale Traveling Fellowship, Serra traveled to Paris, France, where he frequently visited the reconstruction of Constantin Brancusi’s studio at the Musée National d’Art Moderne. During the early 1960s, Serra came into contact with fellow artists Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, and Frank Stella.
Serra trained as a painter at Yale, where he worked with Josef Albers on his book The Interaction of Color (1963).
He then studied at Yale University, New Haven, from 1961 to 1964, completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and Master of Fine Arts degree. While working in steel mills to support himself, Serra attended the University of California at Berkeley and Santa Barbara from 1957 to 1961, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in English literature.
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