Ocean Surface Wood Engraving 2000
Vija Celmins American, born Latvia
Printer Leslie Miller American
Publisher Grenfell Press American
Not on view
Celmins employs a limited repertoire of imagery that she reworks in her paintings, drawings, and prints. Her images of night skies, rocky deserts, and spider webs emerge from small black-and-white photographs taken from old books or journals—or, more rarely, as in the case of this ocean surface, from the artist's own photographs. Celmins does not strictly reproduce her source photographs; rather, she likes to say that she "re-describes" them. Her adept hand slows down the image, begging the viewer to investigate its intricate making.
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