Viola Frey
China Goddess Painting
1975
Medium
acrylic on unstretched canvas
Dimensions
19 1/4 x 28 3/4 inches (48.9 x 73 cm)
Inventory Number
VF-0091PT
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
- 2003 Scenery, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1998 Viola Frey: Survey 1969-1981, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
- 1986 Miniature Worlds: The San Francisco Bay Area, 1965-1975, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
- 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
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.
- 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).
- 1992 Chadwick, Whitney. Viola Frey: Fresno Art Museum. San Francisco: Rena Bransten Gallery, May 1992.