An architect of international renown, Richard Meier often turns to other art forms as outlets for talents that range far beyond the drafting table. Meier's art, like his architecture, builds on solid modernist foundations. At the beginning of his architecture career, Meier spent evenings and weekends in lower Manhattan painting alongside other young artists attracted to the dynamic outpouring of older abstract expressionists including Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline.The collages he constructs out of papers gathered while traveling grow out of the work of Picasso, Schwitters, and others. Most recently,Meier has focused on sculpture, turning out assemblages that seethe and throb with a barely controlled vitality, recalling the chargedcreations of the constructivists, futurists, and even surrealists.

RICHARD MEIER SCULPTURE