Untitled Family Group
Date1992
Label TextViola Frey’s large-scale ceramic figures boldly place both the everyday individual and the world of craft into the realm of monuments. Here, three conventionally dressed, contemporary figures sit atop a classical base, surrounded by the vestiges of art history: an equestrian figure, a female nude, a prone head reminiscent of a Roman imperial colossus, and figures dressed in both Eastern and Western historical garb. Unifying all the figures with her singular expressionistic style, the artist wryly collapses old and new, monumental and mundane, onto equal footing.
Object number95.142
Photo CreditPhoto: Scott Leen
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture, June 21 - September 2, 2024.Credit LineGift of William L. True in honor of Patterson Sims
Dimensions75 x 43 x 29 in. (190.5 x 109.22 x 73.66 cm)
MediumCeramic with paint
Object number: SC2000.66.18
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