Vija Celmins is an exceptionally well-rounded artist, working in the fields of painting, sculpture, drawing, and etching. She studied at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis from 1955 to 1962 and at the University of California in Los Angeles from 1962 to 1965. There, she gave up abstract expressionism to start painting objects found around her studio – a lamp, a toaster, a fan, a hot plate....
