Vija Selmins. Fix image in memory

Art Gallery of Ontario AGO presents a solo exhibition by Wii Selmins "Fix image in memory". The exhibition includes more than 110 works that illustrate the artistic “redescription” by the author of the physical world as a way of understanding human consciousness through life experience. Also presented are several large-scale newest paintings and engravings, created on the basis of graphite and coal drawings.

Vija Selmins was born in 1938 in Riga. After emigrating with her family to Indianapolis after World War II, she studied at the John Herron School of Art and Design. The artist's early works are marked by the influence of pop art. Her series of nameless (Big Sea) painstakingly painted ocean surfaces brought her recognition, and critics compare her with Gerhard Richter.

She has participated in more than 40 solo exhibitions, including retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the Tate Gallery in London and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Lives and works in New York. His works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and others.