Viola Frey

Junkyard Planet

1970-1971

Medium
ceramic, glazes, China paint, and silver luster
Dimensions
44 x 18 x 18 inches (111.8 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm)
Inventory Number
VF-0004CSS
Exhibition History
  • 2019   Viola Frey: Center Stage, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA (catalogue)
  • 2009   Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI (catalogue); also traveled to Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
  • 1998   Viola Frey: Survey 1969-1981, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
  • 1982   Currents 18: Viola Frey, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
  • 1981   Viola Frey, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (catalogue); also traveled to Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Sheehan Art Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA; Blanden Memorial Gallery, Fort Dodge, IA; Matthew’s Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
  • 1975   Viola Frey: Recent Ceramic Sculpture, Hank Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 1973   The Great Oakland Myth, Wenger Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bibliography
  • 2024    de Bos, Cynthia, Nancy Lim, Viola Frey with Charles Fiske, Jenelle Porter, and Jodi Throckmorton. de Bos, Cynthia, and Jenelle Porter, eds. Viola Frey: Artist’s Mind/Studio/World. Oakland: Artists’ Legacy Foundation and New York: Gregory R. Miller, forthcoming September 2024.
  • 2020    Jones, Whitney. “Feature: After Three Decades, Viola Frey takes ‘Center Stage’.” CFileonline.org. January 27, 2020. https://cfileonline.org/feature-after-three-decades-viola-frey-takes-center-stage/
  • 2019    Pandolfi, Elizabeth. “Many Dimensions: A Survey Exhibition of Ceramicist and Painter Viola Frey Reveals Her Full Significance, for the First Time in Four Decades.” Art and Antiques. Wilmington: Art and Antiques, June 2019. 42-47.
  • 2017    Griffin, Susan. Viola Frey: Women & Men. Berkeley: Kelly’s Cove Press, 2017.
  • 2009    Taragin, Davira. Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2009).
  • 1998    Jana, Reena and Patterson Sims. Viola Frey (San Francisco: Rena Bransten Gallery, 1998).
  • 1982    Cowart, Jack. “Currents: Viola Frey.” Currents. St. Louis: St. Louis Art Museum, 1982.
  • 1982    Montini, Ed. “Feat of Clay: Art world finally discovers style in ceramics.” The Arizona Republic. August 22, 1982. F1, F9.
  • 1981    Clark, Garth. Viola Frey (Sacramento: Creative Arts League of Sacramento, 1981).
  • 1981    Dunham, Judith L. “Ceramic Bricolage: The Protean Art of Viola Frey.” American Craft Magazine. New York: American Craft Council, August / September 1981. 29-33.
  • 1981    Levine, Melinda. “Viola Frey: Mythic Pastiches in Paint and Clay.” Artweek. September 5, 1981. 1, 16.
  • 1975    Kester, Bernard. “Exhibitions: Los Angeles.” Craft Horizons. New York: American Craft Council, December 1975. 54.
  • 1974    Dungan, Eloise. “Art where nature mocks the machine.” San Francisco Examiner. March 19, 1974. 20.
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