Viola Frey Retrospective | 1981

Essay by Garth Clark
Creative Arts League of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA

“In Viola Frey’s multi-media world of pluralism, visual morality, and diverse, but parallel, concerns of content, the viewer may find difficulty in finding a port of entry to begin an understanding of her work. If one were to explain this work from a structuralist viewpoint, the emerging structures would be so complex that comprehension would be diminished rather than increased. Themes appear in one series of work only to disappear and re-emerge years later in disguised form; anything from four to six series of work may be pursued at the same time, sometimes pieces are retired years after the forms were made, and the new surfaces may set them apart from other works of the same series.” – Garth Clark

This exhibition publication includes Clark’s essay “Cracks in the Sidewalk: A Chronological Study of the Art and World of Viola Frey,” which accompanied the 1981 Viola Frey: Retrospective at Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, and traveled to Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, and others.

Soft cover, staple bound
10.25 x 9 inches
44 pages, 8 color plates, 23 black and white plates

$15