Richard Tuttle
Richard Tuttle ( born July 12, 1941 in Rahway, New Jersey (USA) ) is an American sculptor, draftsman and object artist.
Life and work
Tuttle grew up in Roselle (New Jersey). He studied in 1962 at the Pratt Institute of Design in Brooklyn, made in 1964 at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut completes the Bachelor of Fine Arts and moved to a one-semester course at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. The same time he worked as an assistant at the Betty Parsons Gallery, where he had his first solo exhibition in 1965. Although he was at first influenced by the work of Agnes Martin and Ellsworth Kelly, he soon found poetic sculptures, drawings and objects, his own artistic way. The Swiss curator Harald Szeemann called Tuttle's work as " post- minimalist ". By participating in the legendary exhibition When Attitudes Become Form at the Kunsthalle Bern in 1969, Tuttle was already known in the later 1960's in Europe.
Richard Tuttle lives and works in New York City and Santa Fe ( New Mexico).