Exhibition Details

Cardi Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition featuring forty new drawings by leading American artist Richard Serra. Widely known for his iconic large-scale, site-specific sculptures, Serra has developed a consistent drawing practice throughout his long career, producing works that are immediate and fundamental in their line of investigation and mark making. Operating intuitively within the constraints of established criteria, the artist has been using black paintstick (compressed oil paint, wax, and pigment) since 1971 as his medium of choice. While integral to the key concerns of time, materiality and process that characterize his sculptural practice, Serra’s drawings are not sketches, studies or precursors to the sculptures. They are works in their own right, each exuding a singular character and energy while defying any metaphorical or emotive associations. The exhibition project presented at Cardi Gallery was curated and designed by the artist himself. “Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see," says Richard Serra.