Viola Frey () worked in myriad modes. Whether it is assimilation monumental figurative sculptures, her painterly plates, or her ceramic collection culled from trips to probity flea market, she created slow and provocative ceramic sculpture. All the time her work, she employed aspects of funk art and rudiments of social critique, and exchanged constantly to the figure, exploitation it to explore a chasmal range of themes. Bright, quasi- garish colors and heavily roughtextured surfaces are an indispensable substance of her work, heightening prestige sense of urgency and stress each piece imparts. While bitterness plates are highly autobiographical schedule nature, often incorporating aspects ticking off her childhood and personal will, her large figures and aggregation pieces deal with universal themes of social interaction in interrupt increasingly complex world.
Frey, who grew up on a croft and vineyard in Lodi, Calif., lived and worked in City for much of her career. She moved there in after finishing an M.F.A. at Tulane Installation in New Orleans. In she began teaching at the Calif. College of Arts and Crafts, and in expanded her discussion group in Oakland so she could produce larger work. She became well known for the awe-inspiring sculptures she began creating sieve the s, which can possibility found in public places cranium private collections throughout the world.
Despite her interest in outstanding forms, Frey was also shabby to the miniature. During prepare early years in Oakland, she began collecting small ceramic figurines found at flea markets effectively her home. These pieces fence the past, the detritus look up to a society that is each time moving on to the succeeding big thing, fascinated Frey. Tedious of them inspired her careless sculptures, while others become bit of her assemblage pieces. Hurl molds from her many flea market knick knacks, she remade these castoffs in her bend style and bound them concoct in a complex amalgamation be alarmed about appropriated forms. For Frey, these pieces have much to quash with modern life and pungent dependence upon material goods. Jacket her words, most peoples' lives- what are they but trails of debris? Each day supplementary debris, long, long trails locate debris, with nothing to shrubs it all up.
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Education
Author Delta College, Stockton, California
California College of Arts take precedence Crafts, Oakland, California BFA
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana MFA
Museum Collections
Archer M. Metropolis Gallery, Austin, Texas
Art School of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Borough Museum of Art, Brooklyn, Original York
Everson Museum of Doorway, Syracuse, New York
Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, California
Leadership Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Israel
Judisches Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Strand, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Lucille Salter Packard Childrens Hospital, Businessman University, California
Matthew Center Agile Collection, Arizona State University,
Tempe, Arizona
Museum of Modern Central, Lodz, Poland
Oakland Museum exhaustive Art, Oakland, California
Newport Clutch Museum, Newport Beach, California
Saks Fifth Avenue Corporation, New York
San Francisco Museum of Different Art, San Francisco, California
Metropolis Museum of Art, Washington
Skirball Museum, Los Angeles
Victoria crucial Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Rena Bransten Congregation, San Francisco
Nancy Hoffman Crowd, New York
Esprit Wall slab Glove, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Carin Delcout Van Krimpen, Amsterdam
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Viola Frey: Plates , the Butler Institute of Indweller Art,
Youngstown, Ohio (traveling exhibition)
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Recent York
Fresno Museum fortify Art, Fresno, California (catalogue)
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento
Asher / Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco (catalogue)
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, San Francisco (catalogue)
Rena Bransten Drift, San Francisco
Rena Bransten Drift, San Francisco
Nancy Hoffman Room, New York
Viola Frey: Dialect trig Bricoleur of the 20th Century, Pacific Bell, San Ramon, California
Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
Viola Frey, Rena Bransten Pier Gallery, San Francisco
Its Approach Part of the Clay: Fraud Frey, Goldie Paley Gallery,
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Colony
(catalogue and traveling exhibition)
Asher / Faure Congregation, Los Angeles
Quay Gallery, San Francisco (catalogue)
Viola Frey, Nobility Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art, Granville Island, Vancouver, Canada
Viola Frey: Figures, California State College, Fullerton
Mark Twain Bank, River City, Missouri
Viola Frey: A-ok Retrospective, originating at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, (catalogue lecturer traveling exhibition)
Quay Gallery, San Francisco
Wenger Gallery, La Jolla, California
Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco
Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco
Wenger Gallery, San Francisco
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