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Artist
Vija Celmins
b. 1938, Riga, Latvia · Latvian-American · Based in New York & Sag Harbor, New York
- MFA, University of California, Los Angeles (1965)
- BFA, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis (1962)
- Painting
- Drawing
- Printmaking
Vija Celmins creates intensely worked drawings, paintings and prints of oceans, night skies, deserts, spider webs and stones. Her practice is less about photographic illusion than about sustained attention to surfaces that appear limitless.
Drawing; painting; printmaking
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
Vija Celmins Paints a Starry Night Sky | Art21
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Major Works
- 1969Untitled (Ocean)
- 1998Night Sky #19
- 1977–82To Fix the Image in Memory I–XI
- 1975Desert
- 1999Web #1
- 2010Starfield
- 2000Ocean Surface Woodcut
- 1990sGalaxy
- 1964Heater
- 1966Suspended Plane
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
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