Richard Nonas
Richard Nonas (born 1936) is an American anthropologist and post-minimalist sculptor. He lives and works in New York City.[1]
Richard Nonas | |
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Born | 1936 (age 84–85) |
Nationality | American |
Known for | Minimalist art, Sculpture, Installation art |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, 1974 |
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Education
Nonas was educated in literature and anthropology at University of Michigan, Lafayette College, Columbia University and the University of North Carolina.[2] 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.[3]
Work
Nonas is known for modular sculptural installations, primarily in stone or wood, in interior and exterior settings.[4][5] Carter Ratcliff wrote that "we cannot grasp a Nonas sculpture simply by thinking about it. His works call for intuitive, empathetic responses."[6]
His work has been compared to Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, and Dorothea Rockburne.[4] He has shown his work internationally. He created a 300-foot long installation in the U.S. at MassMoca in a one-person exhibition, Richard Nonas: The Man in the Empty Space.[7][8] His work was featured in the 1973 Whitney Biennial.[9] Courtney Fiske has written that Nonas treats "space as a material", in that each work is intended to be a "blunt insertion into the viewer's surrounds. His approach to minimalism not only includes serialiity, but also maintain a sense of self-containment and timelessness."[10] Joyce Beckenstein writing for Sculpture Magazine, describes Nonas' studio as a "Wunderkammer piled high with artifacts and relics as well as past and in-progress works....with the unexpected surprises of an archaeological dig.[11]
Awards and honors
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1974.[12]
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.[13] In 2012, at the abandoned village, Vière et les Moyennes Montagnes, Digne-les-Bains, France, he create a permanent installation.[2]
Collections
Nonas' work is included in the collection of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, the Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art among others.[14][15][16] His work is also included in the permanent collection of the Fondazione Ratti, Italy.[2]
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
- Bacon, Alex (March 2013). "In Conversation: Richard Nonas with Alex Bacon". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- "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.
- Levin, Kim. "Richard Nonas at Fergus McCaffrey". ArtNews. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- Mosoff, Julie. "On Display: Richard Nonas". Du Jour. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- Ratcliff, Carter. "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. 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). "ReviewsL 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". 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.