By 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. Serra had his first solo exhibition in the United States at the Leo Castelli Warehouse, New York.
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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, where his circle of friends included 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, in 1966. He spent much of the following year in Florence on a Fulbright grant, and traveled throughout southern Europe and northern Africa. In 19, Serra traveled to Paris on a Yale Traveling Fellowship, where he frequently visited the reconstruction of Constantin Brancusi's studio at the Musée National d'Art Moderne. During the early 1960s, he came into contact with 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. He then went on to study at Yale University, where by 1964 he had completed both his B.F.A. in English literature from the University's Santa Barbara campus. While working in steel mills to support himself, Serra entered the University of California, Berkeley and graduated in 1957 with a B.A. Richard Serra was born November 2, 1939, in San Francisco.
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