This exciting new book offers an expansive exploration of the American artist Viola Frey (1933–2004) through her wide-ranging artistic practice, from vivid, pictorial pastels to her beloved larger-than-life sculptures. Spanning more than 50 years, Frey’s art making crisscrossed myriad subjects, mediums and forms. Taken together, Artist’s Mind/Studio/Worldspeaks to this breadth, clarifying her devotion to line, color and scale, and demonstrating the ways she seamlessly transitioned from three dimensions to two, and from the intimate to the monumental. Extensively illustrated with recent discoveries from the Viola Frey Archives and containing major new critical texts alongside an illustrated chronology, Viola Frey: Artist’s Mind/Studio/World explores the life and work of a vanguard multidisciplinary artist whose influence resonates with contemporary artists and audiences.

Texts by Cynthia de Bos, Viola Frey with Charles Fiske, Nancy Lim, Jodi Throckmorton, and Jenelle Porter.

Lead funding for the book was generously provided by the Henry Luce Foundation.