Viola Frey: Monumental Figures 1978-1987 | 1988

Essay by Susan C. Larsen
Asher-Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Viola Frey’s vivid, massive, polychrome ceramic personages renew the tradition of larger-than-life figural sculpture central to Wester art since antiquity. Unlike the heroic sculptural images of the Greeks and Romans, or the more confident human images of the Renaissance, Viola Frey’s contemporary everyman and everywoman wage an uncomfortable war of nerves with the burden of their own monumentality.” – Susan C. Larsen

Included are color images of monumental figurative works installed on location at collectors’ homes, gardens, and gallery spaces.

Soft cover
12 x 9 inches
45 pages, 18 color plates, 1 black and white plate

$15