Frank Stella, minimalist painter and sculptor, dies at 87

Frank Stella stands beside his sculpture, “Adjoeman,” which was created in 2004. Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. In one way it was a new classicism, in another it was a new form of corporate academicism.” The Gas Company tower in DTLA with mural by artist Frank Stella, right. A sculpture by acclaimed artist Frank Stella hangs in the covered plaza of the Citigroup Center building in downtown Los Angeles. “He felt that the work that he showed was the culmination of a decades-long effort to create a new pictorial space and to fuse painting and sculpture.” In 2014, Stella visited Los Angeles while his sculpture “Adjoeman” was on loan to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and displayed on a pedestal at the intersection of Beverly and San Vicente boulevards in West Hollywood.