James Lawrence

James Lawrence is a critic and historian of postwar and contemporary art.

Plenty of artists have an instinct for revelation. Few have the more rarefied talent for releasing revelation into the wild. Richard Serra, I think, flourished in the fertile ground between the subjective, immersive realm of things, thoughts, and forces that he deployed in his works; and the amorphous physical world in which perceptual moments beyond his control would ultimately shape those works in countless configurations.

Portrait of Richard Serra, pencil on paper by Phong H. Bui

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