Viola Frey: Fresno Art Museum | 1992

Essay by Whitney Chadwick
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA

“Viola Frey’s recent drawings, large pastels with surfaces animated by expressionist color and exuberant figuration, address issues that have been central to her work for thirty years. The spaces of the drawing are taut and packed with images, their surfaces fractured by a play of light and color that is sculptural in its intensity. In many of them, nudes based on life drawing sessions in the studio, coexist uneasily with the torrent of figures and forms that flows from the artist’s imagination and from her incorporation of personal memory and cultural artifacts.” – Whitney Chadwick

Produced for the occasion of Frey’s receipt of the 1991 Distinguished Artist Award, this catalogue explores Frey’s early works as they relate to her pastel drawings and monumental figurative sculpture. A short interview transcript and exhibition checklist is included.

Soft cover
11 x 8.5 inches
48 pages, 21 color plates

$15