Richard Fleischner Explained

Richard Fleischner
Birth Place:	New York City
Occupation:	artist
Years Active:	1960s–present

Richard Fleischner is a Providence, RI–based environmental artist. Born in New York in 1944, he received a BFA and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and began working in the 1960s.^[1]

Installations

Year	Name	Location	Description
1974	Sod Maze, for the exhibition Monumenta	Château-sur-Mer in Newport, Rhode Island
1977	Floating Square	Documenta 6 in Kassel, Germany
1984	La Jolla Project	Revelle College near Theatre District
1985	Untitled	Alewife station, Cambridge, MA	A three-acre large environmental work containing an artificial pond and large granite blocks
1986	Columbia Subway Plaza	Broad and Cecil B. Moore, Philadelphia, PA

Awards

• Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts
• The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1974, 1980, 1990)

External links

• Biography from Knoedler Gallery
• Review in New York Times
• La Jolla Project, 1984
• Untitled 1997
• Space into Place
• Interview with Richard Fleischner on All Ears
• Stuart Collection at UCSD: Richard Fleischner
• Columbia Subway Plaza, 1986

Notes and References

1. knoedlergallery.com, "Richard Fleischner Biography" May 23, 2011, available at http://www.knoedlergallery.com/artists/richard_fleischner/biography.html