Richard Nonas, Who Explored Art and the Space It Inhabits, Dies at 85 A part of the early-1970s art scene in SoHo and TriBeCa, he created Post-Minimalist sculptures out of steel, stone and wood. The sculptor Richard Nonas in Paris in 1965. “He grasped space,” one curator said, “in a way most of his colleagues did not.”Credit...Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Photos May 24, 2021, 12:45 p.m. ET Richard Nonas, a Post-Minimalist sculptor influenced by his field work in anthropology to conceive works from found materials that explored how art and the space it occupies affect each other, died on May 11 at his home in Manhattan. He was 85.