Viola Frey

The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization

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
  • 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.
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