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- Vija Celmins
- Untitled (Desert-Galaxy)
- 1974
- AR00162
- Artist Rooms
- Vija Celmins
- Untitled Portfolio: Galaxy
- 1975
- AR00605
- Artist Rooms
- Vija Celmins
- Drypoint - Ocean Surface
- 1983
- AR00467
- Artist Rooms
- Vija Celmins
- Constellation - Uccello
- 1983
- AR00606
- Artist Rooms
- Vija Celmins
- Jupiter Moon - Constellation
- 1983
- AR00481
- Artist Rooms
- Vija Celmins
- Concentric Bearings A
- 1984
- AR00469
- Artist Rooms
- Vija Celmins
- Concentric Bearings B
- 1984
- AR00482
- Artist Rooms
- Vija Celmins
- Concentric Bearings C
- 1984
- AR00483
- Artist Rooms
- Vija Celmins
- Dec-1984
- 1985
- AR00468
- Artist Rooms
- Vija Celmins
- Concentric Bearings D
- 1985
- AR00470
- Artist Rooms
Vija Celmins (American, born 1938)
Born in Latvia in 1938, Cemins and her family emigrated to the United States in 1948. Although beginning her career as an Abstract Expressionist painter, she is now best known for her intricate, monochromatic drawings of a select range of subjects. In 1966 she began to use photographs as the subject for her works, creating what she described as “impossible images” which remind us of the complexity of the simplest things. These meticulous renderings of the surface of the ocean, expanses of desert, the night sky, or a spider’s web, demonstrate her fascination with the surrounding world. With a slow, painstaking approach, some of these works take up to a year to complete.
