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Richard Nonas

Richard Nonas (1936 - 2021) was active/lived in New York, Ontario / Canada.  Richard Nonas is known for Minimalist installation sculpture, environment themes, geometric forms.

"Richard Nonas, Who Explored Art and the Space It Inhabits", Dies at 85, Online Obituary, The New York Times, by Richard Sandomire, May 24, 2021

A part of the early-1970s art scene in SoHo and TriBeCa, he created Post-Minimalist sculptures out of steel, stone and wood

Richard Nonas, a Post-Minimalist sculptor who was influenced by his field work in anthropology to conceive works from found materials that explored how art and the space it occupies affect each other, died on May 11 at his home in Manhattan. He was 85.

The cause was arteriosclerosis, said his partner, Jan Meissner, a photographer.

“He harnessed space; he lassoed it,” said Alanna Heiss, founder of the cutting-edge P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS 1) in Long Island City, Queens. “To make art, he used space as one of his materials. He grasped space in a way most of his colleagues did not.”

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