The deeply meditative art of Latvian-born artist Vija Celmins has a strange power to transfix. Her work is uncanny in its intense attention to detail; she zooms in on the depth of the night sky or the ...
It’s the most basic function a picture can serve: Just pointing to things in the world, to say “Look at that.” That simple, primary duty of “ostension,” as a philosopher might put it, outweighs all ...
Standing in a gallery full of her astoundingly realistic pencil drawings featuring nothing but the rippling waters of the Pacific Ocean, the American artist Vija Celmins announces: “There is no ocean ...
Vija Celmins is perhaps best known for her obsessive, minutely detailed images of ocean waves and the star-filled night sky, and indeed throughout her career she has repeatedly returned to those ...
Vija Celmins, “Untitled (Big Sea #1)” (1969), graphite on acrylic ground paper (all photos by Elisa Wouk Almino/Hyperallergic) SAN FRANCISCO — As I walked through Vija Celmins’s retrospective at the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. "From today, painting is dead." These words, uttered by a ...
A few days before the opening of Vija Celmins’s retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, last December, the artist, an auburn-haired woman in dark slacks and a slate-blue overshirt, ...
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