December 15, 2018–March 31, 2019 / Floor 4
For more than five decades, Vija Celmins has been creating
subtle, exquisitely detailed renderings of the physical world —
including oceans, desert floors, and night skies. Distilling vast,
expansive distances into mesmerizing, small-scale artworks,
these “redescriptions” are a way to understand human
consciousness in relation to lived experience.
Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory features more than
140 artworks, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures.
A global debut, this is the first Celmins retrospective in North
America in more than twenty-five years.