Via Clemens, Suspended Plane, 1966, Collection SFMOMA, photo: courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery
Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
December 15, 2018 - March 31, 2019
For more than five decades, Vija Celmins has been creating subtle, exquisitely detailed renderings of the physical world — including oceans, desert floors, and night skies. Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory features more than 140 artworks, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures. A global debut, this is the first Celmins retrospective in North America in more than twenty-five years.
Image: Vija Celmins, Untitled (Ocean), 1977; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, bequest of Alfred M. Esberg; © Vija Celmins; photo: Don Ross
For more than five decades, Vija Celmins has been creating subtle, exquisitely detailed renderings of the physical world — including oceans, desert floors, and night skies. Distilling vast, expansive distances into mesmerizing small-scale artworks, these “redescriptions” are a way to understand human consciousness in relation to lived experience. One of the few women to be recognized as a significant artist in 1960s Los Angeles, Celmins relocated to New York City in 1981, where she continues to live and work. Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory features more than 140 artworks, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures. A global debut, this is the first Celmins retrospective in North America in more than twenty-five years.
Via Clemens, Suspended Plane, 1966, Collection SFMOMA, photo: courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery
Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
December 15, 2018 - March 31, 2019
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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