With Albers, he worked on his book Interaction of Color (1963). He claims to have taken most of his inspiration from the artists who taught there, most notably Philip Guston and the experimental composer Morton Feldman, as well as designer Josef Albers. Fellow Yale Art and Architecture alumni of the 1960s include the painters, photographers, and sculptors Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Nancy Graves, Gary Hudson and Robert Mangold. program at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture between 19. 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.” Serra discussed his early life and influences in an interview in 1993. On the West Coast, he helped support himself by working in steel mills, which was to have a strong influence on his later work. While at Santa Barbara, he studied art with Howard Warshaw and Rico Lebrun. He went on to study English literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 1957 before transferring to the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating with a B.A. His mother, Gladys Feinberg, was a Los Angeles-born Russian Jewish immigrant from Odessa (she committed suicide in 1979). His father, Tony, was a Spanish native of Mallorca who worked as a candy factory foreman. Serra was born on November 2, 1938, in San Francisco as the second of three sons. He lives and works in Tribeca, New York, and on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement. Richard Serra (born November 2, 1938) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal.

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