Vija Celmins, Untitled (Big Sea #1)

Vija Celmins, Untitled (Big Sea #1), 1969. Graphite on acrylic ground on paper.

“It is about the huge, lonely patience that is fundamental to art that is not based upon the parading of self. Miss Celmins does not wish to present herself as  ‘amusing’ or ‘brilliant’ or ‘inventive.’ ” She can do all those things, and she did them to great effect when she first came to notice as an artist born in Latvia and resident in Los Angeles. But now she wants to vanish inside the art.”

––John Russell reviews Vija Celmins in the New York Times, March 18, 1983.

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