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Matthew Marks Gallery<\/a>\u2019s show of Vija Celmins\u2019 mid-80s prints includes her iconic images of the ocean\u2019s surface, star-filled night skies and a rocky patch of ground in the desert, all huge spaces which the artist engages on a human scale.\u00a0 Night scenes and land\/seascapes look like generic sites until closer inspection reveals the specificity of each in the mind-boggling detail Celmins affords each wave or rock.\u00a0 Here, she continues to juxtapose the vast and the minute by picturing a huge tree in an etching less than four inches tall, ignoring details of leaves and bark and instead putting the emphasis the mass and silhouette of a giant that necessarily contains worlds of detail.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through June 27th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

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Vija Celmins, Untitled (Tree) from The View, etching and drypoint, 3 \u00bd x 3 7\/8 inches (image), 1986.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vija Celmins, (detail of) Untitled (Tree) from The View, etching and drypoint, 3 \u00bd x 3 7\/8 inches (image), 1986.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew Marks Gallery\u2019s show of Vija Celmins\u2019 mid-80s prints includes her iconic images of the ocean\u2019s surface, star-filled night skies and a rocky patch of ground in the desert, all huge spaces which the artist engages on a human scale.\u00a0 Night scenes and land\/seascapes look like generic sites until closer inspection reveals the specificity of … <\/p>\n

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