Viola Frey
Space Age Series (Ice Planet/Planet Pot)
1969
Medium
stoneware and glazes
Dimensions
22 x 16 x 16 inches (55.9 x 40.6 x 40.6 cm)
Inventory Number
VF-0058CSS
Credit Line
Artists’ Legacy Foundation, Oakland, CA
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
- 1990 Bay Area Sculptors of the 1960s: Then and Now, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
- 1990 Functional Fantasy, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, CA
Bibliography
- 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 Owen, Amy and Jodi Throckmorton. Viola Frey: Center Stage (Napa, CA: di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, 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 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).
- 2001 Whittaker, Richard. “Who Makes Originals, Ever? A Conversation with Viola Frey.” Works and Conversations. 2001. 10-19.
- 1990 Neubert, George. Bay Area Sculptors of the 1960s: Then and Now. San Francisco: Braunstein/Quay Gallery, May 1990.