Richard Nonas
Richard Nonas | |
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Minimalist art, Sculpture, Installation art | |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, 1974 |
Richard Nonas (January 3, 1936 – May 11, 2021) was an American anthropologist and post-minimalist sculptor. He lived and worked in New York City.[1][2]
Education
Nonas was educated in literature and anthropology at University of Michigan, Lafayette College, Columbia University, and the University of North Carolina.[3] He followed this with field-work studies on Native American sites in Northern Ontario, Canada, and in Northern Mexico and Southern Arizona before becoming a sculptor.[4]
Work
Nonas'
Nonas' oeuvre is known for modular sculptural installations, primarily in stone or wood, in interior and exterior settings.[6][7] Carter Ratcliff wrote that "we cannot grasp a Nonas sculpture simply by thinking about it. His works call for intuitive, empathetic responses."[8]
His work has been compared to that of
Nonas stated that his travels impacted on his artistic practice, "What I realized in Mexico was that there are physical places, spaces deeply imbued with human meaning, that can have a great deal of power over us, places that affect us in an extremely worldly way." He described his sculptures as ways to define his own "existent reality, the reality I try to describe to you.[5]
Exhibitions
Nonas exhibited his work widely throughout the world, including shows in the U.S. at
Awards and honors
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1974.[15]
Public artworks
Nonas produced permanent public art works for the Museum of Grenoble, Transi West (for 36 Albanians ...), 1994; the North Dakota Museum of Art, Granite. In the early 1990s the North Dakota Museum of Art commissioned Nonas to design a sculpture garden and specimen peony garden for the museum.[16] In 2012, at the abandoned village, Vière et les Moyennes Montagnes, Digne-les-Bains, France, he created a permanent installation.[3]
Collections
Nonas' work is included in the collections of the
Bibliography
- 1998 Richard Nonas 1970-1988, Art and Architecture Books of the Twentieth Century.
- 1985 Kuspit, D. and Rosenzweig, P., Richard Nonas, Sculpture, Parts to anything, Nassau Country Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, 1985.
References
- ^ ArtNews obituary
- ^ Bacon, Alex (March 2013). "In Conversation: Richard Nonas with Alex Bacon". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ a b c "Richard Nonas". Fergus Mccaffrey Gallery. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ "Eye of the Sixties - Judith Stein, Miles Bellamy, Mark di Suvero, Rosalyn Drexler, Alfred Leslie, Richard Nonas - An Art Book Series Event". New York Public Library. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ a b c d Selvin, Claire (12 May 2021). "Richard Nonas, Experimental Sculptor Who Pushed the Medium to New Frontiers, Has Died at 85". ARTnews. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ a b Levin, Kim (3 November 2014). "Richard Nonas at Fergus McCaffrey". ARTnews. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ Mosoff, Julie (25 September 2014). "On Display: Richard Nonas". Du Jour. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ Ratcliff, Carter (7 July 2018). "Seeing Ourselves in Sculpture". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ Kors, Stacey (21 February 2016). "Sculptor Richard Nonas mingles nature, culture at Mass MoCA". Boston Globe. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ "Richard Nonas: The Man in the Empty Space". Mass MoCA. 14 November 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ 1973 Whitney Biennial Exhibition. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. 1973. p. 14. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ Fiske, Courtney (November 29, 2014). "Reviews: Richard Nonas, Fergus McCafferty Gallery, New York". Art in America. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ^ Beckenstein, Joyce (November 2017). "A Conversation with Richard Nonas: Telling it Slant". Sculpture Magazine. 36 (9). Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ^ "Richard Nonas: The Man in the Empty Space". MASS MoCA. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ "Richard Nonas". Fellows. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- ^ "Sculpture Garden: Richard Nonas - Granite". North Dakota Museum of Art. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ "Richard Nonas". Collection: Art & Artists. Walker Art Center. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ "Details from the Excavation of Wooster Street (Richard Nonas)". The MET: Collection. Metropolitan Museum. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ "Richard Nonas (1936-)". Collection. Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 30 December 2018.