The Gardiner Museum hosts First Comprehensive Assessment of Viola Frey's Career |
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| Written by Marlene Winters |
| Tuesday, 08 September 2009 03:39 |
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 This ground-breaking exhibition features 22 works in a variety of media
from leading public and private collections in the United States including the
Artists’ Legacy Foundation, the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, the Fine Arts Museum of
San Francisco, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Frey first established her reputation in the late 1960s with a series of ceramic sculptures featuring quirky assemblages of images inspired by objects found in local flea markets. In the late 1970s, she began to move away from assemblage sculptures and concentrated on creating large-scale figures. These larger-than-life sculptures typically depict contemporary men and women in stiff, awkward poses that directly engage and involve viewers. The surfaces are usually painted in bold primary colours that further enhance their visual appeal and emotional impact. Frey was a revolutionary who broke through the theoretical boundaries between art and craft. Although her monumental figures attracted national and international acclaim Frey also created a strong body of paintings and drawings and experimented with photography, bronze casting and glass sculpting. According to Gardiner Museum Executive Director Alexandra Montgomery, “Bigger, Better, More offers a rare opportunity to see some of Viola Frey’s most extraordinary work. Frey has a wide appeal as her work provides a provocative commentary on life in 20th century American and engages those with an interest in modern art and/or figurative sculpture as well as ceramics.” The Gardiner Museum offers an intimate look at one of the world’s oldest and most universal forms of art and material culture—ceramics. Complemented by special exhibitions, the collection exceeds 3,000 historical and contemporary pieces and spans continents and time, giving you an extraordinary glimpse into the development of the ceramic process, decoration and shape. Located across from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto’s charming Yorkville district, the Gardiner has undergone a major expansion of its gallery and studio spaces. It remains one of the city’s finest examples of modernist architecture. Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey is co-organized by the Gardiner Museum and the Racine Art Museum in Racine Wisconsin. It will also travel to the Museum of Art and Design in New York City and the Arkansas Arts Centre in Little Rock. Visit : http://www.gardinermuseum.on. Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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