Exhibition Curator Lowery Stokes Sims guides visitors through the new exhibition, Bigger, Better More: The Art of Viola Frey. Following, Assistant Curator Elizabeth Edwards Kirrane will tour the companion exhibition, California Dreamers.

About the Exhibition:
The first major retrospective of Viola Frey's work since her death in 2004, Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey will feature the artist's colossal clay figures, sculptures, ceramic plates as well as a selection of her paintings and works on paper. The installation at MAD, coordinated by curator Lowery Stokes Sims, will also include works from the museum's permanent collection and several private collections, examples of Frey's collaboration with ceramicist Betty Woodman, and a selection of popular ceramics from Frey's personal collection which served as inspiration for her "bricolage" sculptures, lent by the Artists Legacy Foundation. Organized by Assistant Curator Elizabeth Edwards Kirrane, MAD will also present an installation of works from its permanent collection by Californian ceramicist artists, contemporaries of Frey, including Robert Arneson, Katherine Choy, David Gilhooly, Richard Shaw, Peter Voulkos, and Betty Woodman.

Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey is co-organized by the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, and the Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin