The Weight of Presence: The Life and Legacy of Richard Serra To encounter the work of Richard Serra is to engage in a physical dialogue with gravity, mass, and the very essence of space. Born in San Francisco in 1938, Serra’s artistic consciousness was forged not in the quietude of a studio, but amidst the industrial grit of the Marine Shipyards. Watching the monumental construction of steel tankers, he developed an early, profound in…