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The Racine Art Museum and the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, are pleased to announce the first major exhibition of artist Viola Frey’s work since her death in 2004. Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey features Frey’s colossal clay figures, as well as a selection of her paintings and ceramic plates. The exhibition will travel to Toronto in September, and then, to museums nationwide, including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.
Frey often created bricolages, which are collage-like clay assemblages. In these sculptures, inspiration came from objects found or purchased at flea markets that were seen as junk to others, but had meaning to her. Nonetheless, she is best known for her brilliantly colored, literally larger-than-life ceramic figures, ranging up to 12 feet tall, that she created later in her career.
After closing in Racine on August 16, 2009, Bigger, Better, More traveled to the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, and is now open at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, through May 30, 2010. It will continue on to the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, from August 13 through November 28, 2010.
MORE ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Exhibition Notes (pdf)
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PRESS RECEIVED
American Craft, December/January 2009 Issue (pdf)
Designtaxi.com November 19, 2009 (pdf)
Art Knowledge News (pdf)
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Viola Frey
Family Portrait, 1995
Ceramic with glazes
84 x 79 x 29 1/2 inches
Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Rena Bransten, 1996
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This exhibition was made possible by: Presenting Sponsors – Karen Johnson Boyd and William B. Boyd, RAM Society Members, SC Johnson, and The Hearst Foundation, Inc.; Gold Sponsors – Artists’ Legacy Foundation, Oakland, Diane and Richard Fisher, Friends of Contemporary Ceramics, Hal Jackman Foundation, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, National Endowment for the Arts, Racine United Arts Fund, The Bransten Family Charitable Fund, UNC Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, CRAFT RESEARCH FUND, Wisconsin Arts Board; Silver Sponsors – Jon and Sonja Hoel Perkins, PACART, and Walker Forge, Inc.; Bronze Sponsor – Target
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