Vija Celmins
November 2021—June 2022In the Gallery, Glenstone presents a selection of paintings, drawings, mezzotints, and sculptures by Vija Celmins (American, b. Latvia 1938) from the 1960s through the past decade. The exhibition marks the artist’s first solo presentation in the Washington, D.C., area since 1979. Celmins is acclaimed for her meticulous renderings of images of the natural world—the night sky, the ocean surface, and spiderwebs, among others—many of which were featured in To Fix the Image in Memory, a major retrospective of her work that traveled the United States and Canada from 2018-2019, installed at the Met Breuer, SFMOMA, and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Exhibition Preview
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Vija Celmins https://www.glenstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CELMv_Vase-577x800.jpg Thin cracks run over a painting that describes the surface of a vase
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courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery Vija Celmins https://www.glenstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CELMv_GF_ReverseNightSky-1067x800.jpg A rectangular canvas painted white has been splattered with black dots of various, but tiny, sizes.
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courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery Vija Celmins https://www.glenstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CELMv_GF_BlackboardTableau14-1067x800.jpg Two shabby-looking framed blackboards, lightly dusted with green-tinted pastel, are mounted on a white wall.
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Vija Celmins https://www.glenstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CELMv_PaintingInSixParts_Hero-1067x800.jpg A series of six gray canvases hang on a wall in a gallery with a stone floor.
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Vija Celmins https://www.glenstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CELMv_Pencil_Install.jpg A sculpture of an over-sized gray pencil sits on a stone gallery floor.
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Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art.com Vija Celmins https://www.glenstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/SM_CELMv_HERO_2021-1101x800.jpg