Viola Frey

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Viola Frey
Viola Frey A Lasting Legacy
Elisa Ishii Period 6
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• Time line
• Born in Lodi California, 1933
• 1956, Got her Bachelors degree for Fine
  Arts(BFA) in California College of Arts and
  Crafts
• 1958, Got her Masters degree for Fine Arts (MFA)
  in Tulane University
• 1958-1960, worked at MOMA(Museum of Modern Art in
  New York)
• 1961 started her exhibitions
• 1965 worked at CCA
• While working at CCA, helped design the Noni
  Eccles Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center on the
  college's Oakland campus
• 1999 level of professor emerta
• 2003 received a chair in Fine Arts at CCA
• Died July 26, 2004 at the age of 70

-Viola Frey
"(My art) wasn't automatic sometimes you had to
get started working and ideas would come. I do
know that the hardest step anyone ever makes,
including myself, is that step into the studio."
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Man Kicking World is exactly that, a seated man
in blue power suit whose jacket relaxes and
ripples on the ground as he raises one leg as if
to kick a ball onto the field, but the ball in
this case is a world five feet in diameter. Knee
bent, he connects with the sphere. Could this be
Frey's way of depicting contemporary man in his
arrogance, toppling ideas, images, philosophies,
thinking he can change the world or kick it
aside? -Nancy Hoffman
In this sculpture, we see the Movement in his
legs by the way He is kicking the world
aside. We also see the balance between the Man
and the world.
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Man with Portland Vases
"Viola has had a profound impact on the visual
arts. She was able to take the culture around her
and reform those elements into a totally original
form of sculpture that defined one of the great
contributions to modern art"
Determined Woman
-CCA President Michael S. Roth
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The color of the womens clothing represents the
childhood That is within us. The texture is to
show its dreamy, imaginative Side.
Reflective Women Frey's larger than life men
and women are ordinary, thinking, reflective
beings who gaze out at the world while their
faces reveal an inner life marked and lined by
matters of consequence. In their heroic scale
they transport the viewer to a time when
everything was larger than life itself, the
innocent child peering upwards always -Nancy
Hoffman
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• Her Creation
• Worked with large ceramic sculptures
• Ceramic - N pots and other articles made from
  clay hardened by heat
• Paralyzed in her legs and left hand caused by
  multiple stokes
• Studio located in Oakland
• Best known for her large statues (some exceeded
  11 feet!
• Uses an electric lift to finish her projects

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"I have to figure out who they are... Sometimes
after they are made, I have to discover if they
are intelligent or not. If they are good or bad,
or if they have any sense of humor."
-Viola Frey
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Work Cited

• http//www.dirosapreserve.org/frey/frey1.shtml
• http//www.nancyhoffmangallery.com/frey/2005.html
• http//www.nancyhoffmangallery.com/frey/2002.html