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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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AMERIQUE

AMERIQUE

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

Black and White Diptych

Black and White Diptych

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

Comet, from Skowhegan suite

Comet, from Skowhegan suite

Release in 1992 at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, with Oberon Press, New York

Concentric Bearings Series

Concentric Bearings Series

Release in 1984 at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles

December 1984 (Gemini, 1224)

December 1984 (Gemini, 1224)

Release in 1985 at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles

Desert

Desert

Release in 1971

Divided Night Sky

Divided Night Sky

Release in 2010

Drypoint - Ocean Surface (G 1055 Rippner p. 50)

Drypoint - Ocean Surface (G 1055 Rippner p. 50)

Release in 1983 at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles

Jupiter Moon - Constellation (Rippner fig. 14, pg. 50, Gemini 1059)

Jupiter Moon - Constellation (Rippner fig. 14, pg. 50, Gemini 1059)

Release in 1983 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

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 3 (G 1934; R 44 & 54)

Night Sky 3 (G 1934; R 44 & 54)

Release in 2002 at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles