Go See – New York: Vija Celmins at McKee Gallery through June 25th, 2010
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Blackboard Tableau #1, Vija Celmins, 2007-2010. 3 found tablets, 7 made tablets, wood, paper, string, acrylic, alkyd oil, and pastel. Image via McKee Gallery.
Vija Celmins’ first gallery show in nine years features paintings, prints, and sculptures. At the core of the exhibition are Celmins’ assemblages of neatly arranged objects that recall an outmoded and cerebral academic youth: globes, maps, tablets, and books, are bronze-cast or painted. Celmins presents 16 such objects, in addition to 4 paintings and 9 new prints. Her exhibition at the McKee Gallery characteristically combines the personal and terrestrial with the cosmic.
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