Vija celmins interview chuck close biography
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Vija celmins interview chuck close biography
Chuck Close in Conversation with Vija Celmins About Her Dense Yet Infinite Drawings
In , Vija Celmins sat down with Chuck Close and had a conversation than can only be shared between two artists deeply committed to drawing.
At moments, they discover uncanny similarities in their developmental timelines, at other moments, they seem as if they're ready to walk away from the conversation in frustration (Chuck Close: "I'm sorry, I feel like I've failed you.
Look at her face, she'd going to ask for another interviewer!") We return to this interview, excerpted in its entirety from Phaidon 's monograph Vija Celmins , as her first exhibition of new works in seven years hangs in Matthew Marks Gallery (on view until April 22).
The artist, born in Latvia in , fled the country before Nazi occupation to live in a United Nations refugee camp in Germany before relocating to Indiana in In the s she became an active figure in the Los Angeles art scene where she produced pristine replicas o