CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/16/2014

'Richard Serra: Early Work' Launch Events at The Strand and NYPL

In celebration of Early Work, the magnificent monograph published by David Zwirner and Steidl, artist Richard Serra spoke and signed books at the Strand on Tuesday, April 22, and appeared in conversation with Hal Foster at The New York Public Library on Wednesday, April 30. Audio of the NYPL conversation is below, followed by reproductions from Richard Serra: Early Work.

"To Lift" (1967). Vulcanized rubber. 36 × 80 × 60". The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist. Photograph by Peter Moore.

"Scatter Piece" (1967). Rubber, latex, metal, and wire. c. 24 × 300 × 300". Dia Art Foundation, New York. Gift of Christie’s. Photograph by Shunk-Kender © Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

"Splashing with Four Molds, To Eva Hesse" (1969). Lead. c. 18 × 360 × 360". Installation in the exhibition Richard Serra, Castelli Warehouse, New York, 1969–70. Photograph by Peter Moore.

Richard Serra and Donald Judd at Judd's studio, New York, 1972.

"Near-perfect... reveals with wonderful economy five formative years in the career of the man who has come to be the world’s most admired living sculptor." – Ken Johnson, The New York Times