INTERVIEWS with Frey

2007

Whittaker, Richard. “Viola Frey: Oakland, California, July 2000.” In The Conversations: Interviews with Sixteen Contemporary Artists. Venice: Whale and Star Press, 2007. 66-77.

2010

Felver, Chris. California Clay in the Rockies. DVD. Oaks, PA: MVD Visual, 2010. Interview conducted in 1983.

2005

Viola Frey: Memory Assembled. DVD. San Francisco: Bay Package Productions with Rena Bransten Gallery, 2005. Interview conducted in 1998. Collection of Viola Frey Archives.

2004

Frey, Viola. “Larger Than Life.” DVD. San Francisco: KQED Spark*, 2004.

Linhares, Philip. “Interview with Viola Frey, April 17, 2003.” DVD. Oakland: Oakland Museum of California, 2004.

2001

Whittaker, Richard. “Who Makes Originals, Ever? A Conversation with Viola Frey.” Works and Conversations. 2001. Interview conducted in 2000.

2000

Jana, Reena. “Viola Frey: Survey of Work 1969 – 1981.” Ceramics: Art and Perception. September 2000. 83-87.

1998

Bransten, Rena and Trish Bransten. Viola Frey: Survey of Work, 1969-1981. VHS. San Francisco: Rena Bransten Gallery, 1998. Collection of Viola Frey Archives.

1996

Frey, Viola. “Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves.” VHS. Presentation at the California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA, April 27, 1996. Collection of Viola Frey Archives.

Sims, Shawn Irvin. “Bodies of Clay.” Ceramic Review. January/February 1996. 21-25.

1995 “Oral history interview with Viola Frey, 1995 February 27-June 19.” Interview by Paul Karlstrom. Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1995.
1994

Bransten, Patricia and James Harris. Viola Frey. San Francisco: Rena Bransten Gallery, 1994.

Tanner, Marcia. “Viola Frey’s Perspectives on Power.” San Francisco Chronicle Datebook. April 10-16, 1994.

1992

Chadwick, Whitney. Viola Frey. Fresno: Fresno Art Museum, May 1992.

Greenberg, Jan and Sandra Jordan. The Sculptor’s Eye. New York: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 1993. Interview conducted in 1992.

1991

Clagett, Leslie. “Feats of Clay.” SF Magazine. February 1991. 72-77, 108-110.

Frey, Viola. “The Worthiness of the World.” Artweek. September 5, 1991. 18.

1990

“Viola Frey: I Call Myself an Artist,” California College of Arts and Crafts News 1, no. 2 (Spring 1990).

1988

Frey, Viola. “Oral history interview with Viola Frey conducted by Richard M. Polsky.” Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University, New York, October 13, 1988.

Halvorsen, Liza E. “Viola Frey.” In Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 28 Bay Area Women Artists, edited by Moira Roth (Oakland: Eucalyptus Press, Mills College, 1988).

1987

Frey, Viola and Charles Fiske. “Draw up a chair…” The Studio Potter 16, no. 1 (December 1987). 7-8.

“Philbrook Museum of Art: The Eloquent Object video tape collection.” Six Video Recordings. Tulsa: Philbrook Museum of Art with Cathey Edwards Productions, 1987. (Frey featured on Tape 1.) Collection of Archives of American Art, donated in 2002 by The Philbrook Museum of Art.

1986

Marechal-Workman, Andree. “An Interview with Viola Frey,” Expo–See Magazine no. 18 (Winter 1985–1986).

“Potters on Color: Viola Frey.” The Studio Potter. June 1986. 49-50.

Richardson, Jan. “An Interview with Viola Frey.” NCECA Journal 7, no. 2 (1986). 20-21.

1984

Burkhart, Dorothy. “The solitary visions of artist Viola Frey.” San Jose Mercury News. August 26, 1984. 18-19.

Cardew, Michael. Glorious Mud. DVD. Toronto: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Enterprises, 1984.

Sims, Patterson and Elsa Weiner Longhauser. It’s All Part of the Clay: Viola Frey. Philadelphia: Moore College of Art, 1984.

1981

Wechsler, Susan. Low-Fire Ceramics: A New Direction in American Clay. New York: Watson-Guptil Publications, 1981.

1977 Szymanski, Jerry D. and Erik Gronborg. Viewpoint: Ceramics 1977. El Cajon, CA: Grossmont College, 1977.
1975 Wenger, Lesley. “Interviews: Viola Frey.” Currant Art Magazine. August/September 1975. 48-50.
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