Richard Fleischner

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{{Infobox person| name=Richard Fleischner| birth_place=New York City| death_place =| occupation=artist | years_active=1960s–present| footnotes=}}

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

Installations

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!Name

!Location

!Description

1974

|Sod Maze, for the exhibition Monumenta

|Château-sur-Mer in Newport, Rhode Island

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1977

|Floating Square

|Documenta 6 in Kassel, Germany

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1984

|La Jolla Project

|Revelle College near Theatre District

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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

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Awards

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

References