The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization

Viola Frey

1992

Medium

ceramic and glazes

Dimensions

95 x 202 x 66 inches (241.3 x 513.1 x 167.6 cm)

Inventory Number

VF-0044CMS

Exhibition History

2020 Monumental: The Art of Viola Frey, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI (brochure)
2019 Viola Frey: Center Stage, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA (catalogue)
2001 Larger than Life: Ceramic Figures by Viola Frey, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; also traveled to Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
1994 Viola Frey, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
1992 Viola Frey and Dennis Gallagher, Esprit Sculpture Garden, 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.
2024 Galpin, Pierre-
2021 Katz, Sarah. “Under the Radar: Viola Frey.” NAWA Now Quarterly. March 2021. https://thenawa.org/march-magazine-2021/
2020 “25 Things to do in Metro Detroit This March.” Hour Detroit Magazine. March 3, 2020. https://www.hourdetroit.com/art-and-entertainment/billie-eilish-little-big-town-champion-march-metro-detroit/
2020 Bennett, Courtney. “For the first time since March, guests walked through the doors at Flint Institute of Arts.” NBC25News.com. July 6, 2020. https://nbc25news.com/news/local/for-the-first-time-since-march-guests-walked-through-the-doors-at-flint-institute-of-arts
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/
2020 “Monumental: The Art of Viola Frey.” FIA Magazine. Spring 2020. 4.
2019 Owen, Amy and Jodi Throckmorton. Viola Frey: Center Stage (Napa, CA: di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, 2019).
2019 “Announcing the debut of two exhibitions in 2019.” e-flux.com. March 20, 2019. https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/255750/announcing-the-debut-of-two-exhibitions-in-2019/
2019 Nadel, Dan. “Viola Frey: Ceramic Sculptor of the Anthropocene.” The New York Review of Books. June 28, 2019. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/06/28/viola-frey-ceramic-sculptor-of-the-anthropocene/
2019 Whiting, Sam. “Viola Frey’s ultra-honest self-portraits at Marin MOCA.” Datebook. San Francisco Chronicle, February 19, 2019. https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/viola-freys-ultra-honest-self-portraits-at-marinmoca
2019 Shaw, Annie. “What’s New in Wine Country: Spring Fling.” Nob Hill Gazette. May 6, 2019. https://nobhillgazette.com/whats-new-in-wine-country-spring-fling/
2019 Whiting, Sam. “Ceramist’s tell-all life-size self-portraits.” San Francisco Chronicle. February 28, 2019. E3. https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/viola-freys-ultra-honest-self-portraits-at-marinmoca
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.
2009 Taragin, Davira. Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2009).
2005 Levin, Elaine. “Viola Frey (1933-2004).” Studio Potter, December 2004. 34-38.
2001 Oland, Dana. “Larger than Life.” The Idaho Statesman. December 8, 2001. 1L.
1999 Van Proyen, Mark. “San Francisco E-mail.” Art Issues. November-December 1999. 38-39.
1994 Bransten, Patricia and James Harris. Viola Frey (San Francisco: Rena Bransten Gallery, 1994).
1991 Clagett, Leslie. “Feats of Clay.” SF Magazine, February 1991.