Vija Celmins is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks. Her earlier work included pop sculptures and monochromatic representational paintings. Based in New York City, she has been the subject of over forty solo exhibitions since 1965, and major retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
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Related works from the webTo Fix the Image in Memory (1982)
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Vija Celmins, To Fix the Image in Memory - The White Review
Explosion at Sea
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Suspended Plane
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Vija Celmins | Suspended Plane (1966) | Artsy
Gun with Hand #1
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Vija Celmins. Gun with Hand #1. 1964 | MoMA
Untitled (Ham Hock)
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Untitled Ham Hock by Vija Celmins on artnet
Untitled (Comet)
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Comet | Untitled | MutualArt
“I’m not a very confessional artist, you know. I don’t ever reveal what I’m feeling in my work, or what I think about the President. I use nature. I use found images.”
Vija Celmins