Viola Frey

Leaning Man III

1984-1985

Medium
ceramic and glazes
Dimensions
104 x 38 x 26 inches (264.2 x 96.5 x 66 cm)
Inventory Number
VF-0021CMS
Exhibition History
  • 2025   Viola Frey: Observed and Gathered, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
  • 1994   Viola Frey: Sculpture and Paintings, Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
  • 1989   Craft Today USA, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France (catalogue); also traveled to Museum of Applied Art, Helsinki, Finland; Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museum of Decorative Applied & Folk Art, Moscow, Russia; State Painting & Sculpture Museum, Ankara, Turkey; The Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Oslo, Norway; St. Peter’s Abbey, Ghent, Belgium; Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany; The Zappeion, Athens, Greece; Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia; The Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany; Sala Sant Jaume de la Fundacio “La Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain; The Gulbenkain, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 1986   Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York, NY (catalogue); also traveled to Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA.
  • 1985   Viola Frey: Paintings and Sculpture, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bibliography
  • 2024    Morris, Sara. “Kinship Structures: Viola Frey, Charles Fiske, and Figurative Ceramics in California.” Archives of American Art Journal. Washington: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Fall 2024. 26-45.
  • 2017    Griffin, Susan. Viola Frey: Women & Men. Berkeley: Kelly’s Cove Press, 2017.
  • 1994    “Sculpture in the Desert.” ARTnews. New York: ARTnews, May, 1994. 17.
  • 1993    Smith, Paul J. Craft Today USA: European Tour 1989-1993. New York: American Craft Museum, c. 1993.
  • 1992    Smith, Paul J. and Joan Guitart i Agell. Craft Today USA. New York: American Craft Council/Museum, 1992.
  • 1989    Smith, Paul J. and Edward Lucie-Smith. Craft Today USA. New York: American Craft Council/Museum, 1989.
  • 1989    Werther, Betty. “Craft Today USA.” American Craft. Minneapolis: American Craft Council, October / November 1989. 13, 32-37.
  • 1986    Smith, Paul J. and Edward Lucie-Smith. Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical. New York: American Craft Council/Museum, 1986.
  • 1986    Schiro, Anne-Marie. “Crafts Museum Celebrates.” New York Times. New York: New York Times.
  • 1985    Miedzinski, Charles. “Images of Paradox.” Artweek. September 21, 1985. 1.
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