Vija Celmins. Strata. 1983. Mezzotint. plate: 23 1/2 x 29 5/16" (59.7 x 74.4 cm); sheet: 29 1/2 x 35 1/4" (75 x 89.6 cm). Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles. Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles. Gift of Edward R. Broida. 683.2005. © 2025 Vija Celmins. Drawings & Prints
Documentation of Vija Celmins at Secession, Vienna is featured on Contemporary Art Daily.
I've been looking round for artists who look at space differently from the majority of space/astro art. A lot of space art is heavily inspired by the film industry or by more scientific illustration and this is reflected in the sort of images that they produce. This is where I saw stumbled across a series…
Celmins's images of oceans and galaxies are powerfully personal and intimate, even if they are mysteriously deserted and distant.
Celmins’s meticulous renderings of the natural world demand to be seen firsthand.
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Vija Celmins
For more than five decades, Vija Celmins has been creating subtle, exquisitely detailed renderings of the physical world — including oceans, desert floors, and night skies. Distilling vast, expansive distances into mesmerizing, small-scale artworks, these “redescriptions” are a way to understand human consciousness in relation to lived experience. One of the few women to be […]
It's been more than a decade since the renowned artist's last exhibition in L.A. Now a show at Matthew Marks covers paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture — some familiar, some new.
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In which creators reveal sources of artistic inspiration and instigation.
View '0 through 9' (1960) By Johns Jasper; offset lithograph on Arches Cover paper; sheet: 57.5 x 44.5cm; Edition. Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.
During a fifth grade field trip in 1966, Sharon Ellis’ class shuffled into the San Diego Museum of Art and listened dutifully as a docent told the children why they should admire a painting featuring a young girl as the…Read more →
Here are a few of the small paper pieces I've been working on lately. Steven Alexander, Untitled, 2018, oil and acrylic on paper, 1...
For years, Hurtado worked quietly, even if prolifically. At 98 years old, she's getting her due at the Serpentine Gallery.
Steven Alexander, Antilles VI, 2010, 58 x 126 inches, acrylic on linen, 8 canvases 20 x 18 in each Steven Alexander, Installation vie...
Joan Jonas Blue Bee. Medium: Digital pigment print on Hahnemühle paper. Sheet: 59.4 x 42 cm, Image: 41.9 x 30.5 cm, Edition of 22 + 3AP, Signed and numbered
Celmins has created numerous drawings, paintings and prints based on photographic records of star fields since the early 1970s, with only minute differences between them. Repetition and similarity are important aspects of her work. She explains: "I tend to do images over and over again because each one has a different tone, slant, a different relationship to the plane, and so a different meaning". 'Falling Stars' is one of a series of five prints made in 2010 in which Celmins explored her fascination with the intricacies and complexities of the natural world, and the similarities between the micro- and the macrocosm. The other prints in the series are 'Reverse Galaxy', 'Divided Night Sky', 'Dark Galaxy' and 'Web Ladder'.
