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Vija Celmins
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ShopVija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966
$21.95By Franklin Sirmans and Michelle White American artist Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is widely admired and respected for her sublime images of night skies and ocean waves. Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966 looks closely at Celmins's early work, which is deeply engaged with the Pop Art scene of 1960s Los Angeles. The authors argue convincingly for a better understanding of this body of work, which is not well known by contemporary audiences, both within Celmins's overall career, and a... -
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ShopVija Celmins & Gerhard Richter: Double Vision
$45.00Edited by Brigitte Kölle with texts by Juliane Au, Hubertus Butin, Johanna Hornauer, Vija Celmins, and Gerhard Richter Contemplating perception and representation with two titans of photorealism. This publication brings together for the first time the work of New York–based artist Vija Celmins (born 1938) and Colgone-based painter Gerhard Richter (born 1932) in a transatlantic dialogue that reveals surprising connections. Their works have been paired together at the Hamburger Kunsthalle in an... -
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ShopVija Celmins & Eliot Weinberger: The Stars
$40.00Artwork by Vija Celmins with text by Eliot Weinberger New York artist Vija Celmins has made many images of the night sky–paintings, drawings and prints of gorgeous richness. In The Stars, she and her collaborator, the essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger, devote an artist's book to the theme. Celmins created three celestial prints for the project, which she also designed. One print, inspired by the worn binding of an early twentieth-century Japanese book, becomes the volume's mottled deep... -
ExhibitionExhibitionOn view Dec 19 – Feb 6
Vija Celmins
A mid-career survey of work from 1964 to 1992, featuring approximately 80 pieces including paintings, drawings and sculptural objects; organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. -
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Untitled (Sky)
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Untitled (Desert)
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Untitled (Galaxy)
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ShopVija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory
$75.00Edited by Gary Garrels Best known for her striking drawings of ocean surfaces, begun in 1968 and revisited over many years both in drawings and paintings, Vija Celmins (b. 1938) has been creating exquisitely detailed renderings of natural imagery for more than five decades. The oceans were followed by desert floors and night skies—all subjects in which vast, expansive distances are distilled into luminous, meticulous, and mesmerizing small-scale artworks. For Celmins, this obsessive “redescri... -
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Untitled (Ocean)
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Jigsaw Puzzle #5
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ExhibitionExhibitionOn view Sept 7 – Dec 14
A Lasting Legacy: Selections from the Lannan Foundation Gift
An in-depth selection of the works in a recent gift from the Lannan Foundation. Organized both monographically and thematically, it included major individual pieces or bodies of work by John Altoon, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Wallace Berman, Chris Burden, Vija Celmins, Jay Defeo, Mark di Suvero, Tom Friedman, Robert Irwin, Alfred Jensen, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Sol LeWitt, John McLaughlin, Malcolm Morley, Charles Ray, Jim Shaw and Kiki Smith, among others. -
ExhibitionExhibitionOn view Oct 9 – Jan 7
Artist’s Gifts: Michael Asher
In 2006, Michael Asher made a gift to MOCA of 37 works from his personal collection, one of the largest gifts from an artist in the museum's history. Spanning the late 1940s to the early '70s, many of the works were produced or exhibited in Los Angeles. The exhibition features selections from this donation, including key works by Larry Bell, Vija Celmins, Judy Chicago, Joe Goode, Al Hansen, Donald Judd, Ken Price, Man Ray, Mason Williams, among others -
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ExhibitionOn view Nov 23 – May 4Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968
Reexamining the postwar art movement of photorealism and tracing its lineages in art of the present day, Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968 includes more than forty artists (largely though not exclusively North American), spans the 1960s to the present, and features paintings, drawings, and sculptures. This historical, scholarly, group exhibition recovers the social art history of photorealism and complicates its meaning as a realism. While photorealism is often re… -
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ProgramThursday, May 1, 2025 6pmOrdinary People Walkthrough with Anna Katz
Join MOCA Senior Curator Anna Katz for a walkthrough of Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968. -
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ExhibitionOn view Oct 14 – Mar 11One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art
MOCA presents an ambitious exhibition inspired by American painter and film critic Manny Farber and his legendary underground essay “White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art” (1962). One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art features approximately thirty artists and more than 100 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and sound dating from the 1950s to the present. The exhibition is conceived as a cross between a monographic exhibition and a group show—an experiment in exhibitio…
