"At this time in my life, I’m ready to accept or own a kind of romance and melancholy or melodrama that I wasn’t ready to reveal before. It was always there in my inner life as an artist, but I was too afraid to share it."
"Heater" (1964)
"Heater," 1964
Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Purchased with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee
Courtesy McKee Gallery, New York
Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Purchased with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee
Courtesy McKee Gallery, New York
"I think I remembered kind of feeling the joy of being able to paint anything. At that time I painted a lot of different objects. Things that turned on, like my hotplate and the lamps. Things that I had...pretty much everything I had in the studio."
- Vija Celmins
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