Marja Vallila








Marja Vallila

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Artist Marja Vallila

Born1950 (age 67–68)

Prague, Czechoslovakia.

NationalityAmerican
OccupationSculptor

Marja Vallila (born 1950, in Prague) is an American artist, painter, ceramicist and sculptor.[1][2][3]




Contents





  • 1 Biography


  • 2 Major shows


  • 3 Permanent collections


  • 4 See also


  • 5 References




Biography


Marja Vallila was born in Czechoslovakia, later moved to Geneva, (Switzerland), then Finland, and finally settled in Washington DC where she learned a fourth language and attended Western High school, renamed (1974) Duke Ellington School of the Arts in the Georgetown neighborhood. She pursued her education at Cornell University,[4] (Master of Fine Arts), (Fulbright grantee) and participated in exhibitions at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art .[5]


She found a place in a warehouse in SoHo, Manhattan that was spacious enough to accommodate both a studio and living space. She then met sculptor James W. Buchman [6][7] and started teaching as a Professor in the art department at SUNY, University at Albany.[8][9][10]


In 1992, she spent a year of residency in France, Centre culturel de la Villedieu.[11]


Her early researches often led to large outdoors architectonic sculptures made of steel, sometimes with the addition of granite, cement or wood.[12] She then went through a period of small-scale metal sculptures, already incorporating objects of daily life in her carving and casting processes, paradoxically resulting in a precious like object.[13] It is only after a visit to Deruta, Italy that she started exploring again, in a unique way, combining trivial objects, the many possibilities of slip-cast ceramics, a medium often used in decorative arts but seldom attached to High Art. Art critics spoke about these overlapping, textured, dynamic, three dimensional collages that offer "final forms [...] almost amphibian-looking biomorphic creations that "verge on the vessel yet avoid a central, open void" : (John Perreault). Polychromatic with layered transparencies, "the exuberant yet intricate looping shapes merge back again into an indescribable whole" : (Milan Hlaveš).[14][15][16]


As her health deteriorated, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee where, though locked in silence, she continues to work on paintings and ceramics.[17][18]


Marja Vallila deeded her parents estate (spared during post-war and soviet times thanks to the presence of a Finnish flag in the window and diplomatic plaque on the building) in Červený Újezd, near Prague, to be used by the community as a special education center.[19]



Major shows



  • Zabriskie Gallery (1977), solo.


  • Newark Museum (1979), solo, (1991), "Book Series", sculpture.

  • Springfield Museum (1979), solo.


  • Seoul Arts Center (2001), solo.

  • U Prestenu Gallery (2001), solo.

  • Nancy Margolis Gallery (2000), solo.

  • Chodovska Tvrz, Czech Republic, (2003) solo.[20]

Her work was included in the show "Study in Materials" at Storm King Art Center in 1978 along with Nevelson, Smith, Lassaw, Calder, Hesse and Saul Baizerman as well as in the show "The Box: From Duchamp to Horn" in 1994 at Ubu Gallery.[21]
Her digital films, about the elements in her sculptures and their associations, have been screened at Millenium (2003/2004), Two Boots Pioneer Theater (2003/2004), and Zabriskie Gallery (2002).[14][22][23]


  • Tops Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee (2017).[24]


Permanent collections



  • Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, (NY): Gateway, (sculpture), wood, steel, and granite.[25][26]

  • Kohoutov, Ceramics school: Czech Republic.[27]


  • Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, (NY): Column No. 5, (sculpture) - wood, steel, stone, and concrete.


  • John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, (New York): Elevated Plaza, (sculpture), steel and copper.


  • Hampshire College Art Gallery, Amherst, (MA): Untitled, (sculpture), welded steel.


  • Smith College Museum of Art , Northampton, (MA): Dancing Goober, (sculpture), ceramic and platinum.[28]


See also


  • Ceramic art

  • Assemblage (art)


References




  1. ^ Clara nmwa.org National Museum of Women Artists


  2. ^ NyTimes.com Art sculptures by painters at the Pace


  3. ^ Smithsonian Libraries


  4. ^ Getty.edu Cornell Then, Sculpture Now (1978)


  5. ^ Google books Handbook of the Collections Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art


  6. ^ SINGER, A. (1985). IN LIVING STEEL AND STONE-THE WORK OF VALLILA, MARJA AND BUCHMAN, JAMES. ARTS MAGAZINE, 59(8), 84-86 [1]


  7. ^ Google books Arts Magazine, Volume 59, Issue 7-8 , 1985


  8. ^ Sculptures.org International Sculpture Center


  9. ^ "Marja Vallila - Installation &#124 Essay by Dan Cameron, Senior Curator at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City; Albany.edu Museum". albany.edu. Retrieved 2015-09-26..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  10. ^ David Stelle biography


  11. ^ (in French) Data.Bnf [2]


  12. ^ Collections Smithsonian institution Gateway (sculpture)


  13. ^ Albany.edu Faculty, Exhibition Essay by Dan Cameron, Senior Curator at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City


  14. ^ ab "Zabriskie Gallery | Marja Vallila". zabriskiegallery.com. Retrieved 2015-09-26.


  15. ^ NKC-National Library of the Czech Republic


  16. ^ Google books


  17. ^ "Goober (Artificial Flower) - Reflect N Us". reflectnus.com. Retrieved 2015-09-26.


  18. ^ "WOMEN TOUCH: CERAMICS | LOVEED FINE ARTS AT A.I.R. GALLERY". loveedfinearts.com. Retrieved 2015-09-26.


  19. ^ (in Czech) ceskatelevize.cz [3]


  20. ^ Works by or about Marja Vallila in libraries (WorldCat catalog)


  21. ^ Ubugalery.com The box


  22. ^ "Marja Vallila on artnet". artnet.com. Retrieved 2015-09-26.


  23. ^ "Artadoo - Artist: Marja Vallila". artadoo.com. Retrieved 2015-09-26.


  24. ^ Burnaway, The Voice of Art in the South, "Never Too Late: Marja Vallila Late Works at Tops Gallery, Memphis" by Elaine Slayton Akin / November 2, 2017


  25. ^ Downtown Syracuse.com Public art


  26. ^ Virtual globetrotting. com Gateway


  27. ^ Keramiko.cz Permanent exhibition


  28. ^ Collections.si










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