Vija Celmins at Glenstone Museum

“I’m the old fashioned solitary painter… I don’t have a formula. I’m not a machine. I have a kind of a touch that’s different on different days.” -#VijaCelmins
On view at Glenstone, “Vija Celmins”, a monographic exhibition of works by Latvian-American artist Vija Celmins. The exhibition marks the artist’s first solo presentation in the Washington, D.C., area since 1979. Celmins is acclaimed for her meticulous renderings of images of the natural world-the night sky, the ocean surface, and spiderwebs, among others-many of which were featured in “To Fix the Image in Memory”, a major retrospective of her work that traveled the United States and Canada from 2018-2019, installed at the Met Breuer, SFMOMA, and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
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This was one of the most touching and emotional videos I have seen recently.

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I saw "Blackboard Tableau #14" at the National Gallery exhibit "The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900" and was blown away by how she was able create (recreate) a near-perfect duplicate, down to the scratches, dust, wood markings, etc. Absolutely incredible!
Just looking at the work one might wonder/scoff "This is art?" until they realize what was involved and the precision and craftsmanship that was executed.