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Titled \u2018Winter,\u2019 Viya Celmins first New York solo show in six years at Matthew Marks Gallery<\/a> sees out the season with paintings featuring snow against dark backgrounds.\u00a0 Those familiar with the artist\u2019s signature subject matter may identify the work as a night sky painting for which she is renowned, but what look like stars are in fact flakes of snow.\u00a0 Celmins has explained in an interview that she aims to wrestle something vast down into the space of the canvas, fixing it there.\u00a0 The new snow-related paintings suggest she\u2019s taken the universe and transposed it into something positioned right before our eyes.\u00a0 In a further twist, the piece\u2019s title, \u2018Snowfall(coat)\u2019 reveals that the snow is not actually seen in front of the darkness of night but has been pictured instead on a black coat. (On view in Chelsea through April 6th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

Vija Celmins, Snowfall (coat), oil on canvas, 19 5\/8 x 13 1\/8 inches, 2021 \u2013 23.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Titled \u2018Winter,\u2019 Viya Celmins first New York solo show in six years at Matthew Marks Gallery sees out the season with paintings featuring snow against dark backgrounds.\u00a0 Those familiar with the artist\u2019s signature subject matter may identify the work as a night sky painting for which she is renowned, but what look like stars are … <\/p>\n

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