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Vija Celmins

Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE-ya SELL-muns; Latvian: Vija CelmiÃâ a, pronounced TSEL-meen-ya) is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks. Her earlier work included pop sculptures and monochromatic representational paintings. Based in New York City, she has been the subject of over forty solo exhibitions since 1965, and major retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

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Reverse Galaxy

Reverse Galaxy

Release in 2010 at Simmelink/Sukimoto Editions, Olympia, Washington

Starfield

Starfield

Release in 2010 at Simmelink/Sukimoto Editions, Olympia, Washington

Black and White Diptych

Black and White Diptych

Release in 2010 at Simmelink/Sukimoto Editions, Olympia, Washington

Divided Night Sky

Divided Night Sky

Release in 2010

Spiderweb (R. p. 210)

Spiderweb (R. p. 210)

Release in 2009 at Lincoln Center List Poster and Print Program, New York

AMERIQUE

AMERIQUE

Release in 2009 at Simmelink/Sukimoto Editions, Olympia, Washington

Untitled (Web #5)

Untitled (Web #5)

Release in 2009 at Simmelink Sukimoto, Kingston, New York

Night Sky, Untitled #17

Night Sky, Untitled #17

Release in 2006

Ocean with Cross #1

Ocean with Cross #1

Release in 2005 at Lincoln Center List Poster and Print Program, New York

Untitled (Web 3) (Rippner fig. 37, pp. 41 and 54)

Untitled (Web 3) (Rippner fig. 37, pp. 41 and 54)

Release in 2003 at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles

Night Sky 2 (Reversed) (Gemini G.E.L 1933; Samantha Rippner fig. 41, pp. 46, 54)

Night Sky 2 (Reversed) (Gemini G.E.L 1933; Samantha Rippner fig. 41, pp. 46, 54)

Release in 2003 at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles

Night Sky 1 (Reversed) (Gemini G.E.L. 1932)

Night Sky 1 (Reversed) (Gemini G.E.L. 1932)

Release in 2003 at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles