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Marja Vallila (born 1950, in Prague) is an American artist, painter and sculptor.〔Clara nmwa.org (National Museum of Women Artists )〕〔NyTimes.com (Art sculptures by painters at the Pace )〕〔(Smithsonian Libraries )〕 == 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,〔Getty.edu (Cornell Then, Sculpture Now (1978) )〕 (Master of Fine Arts), (Fulbright grantee) and participated in exhibitions at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art .〔Google books (Handbook of the Collections Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art )〕 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 〔SINGER, A. (1985). IN LIVING STEEL AND STONE-THE WORK OF VALLILA, MARJA AND BUCHMAN, JAMES. ARTS MAGAZINE, 59(8), 84-86 ()〕〔Google books (Arts Magazine, Volume 59, Issue 7-8 , 1985 )〕 and started teaching as a Professor in the art department at SUNY, University at Albany.〔Sculptures.org (International Sculpture Center )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Marja Vallila - Installation | Essay by Dan Cameron, Senior Curator at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City; Albany.edu Museum )〕〔(David Stelle biography )〕 In 1992, she spent a year of residency in France, Centre culturel de la Villedieu.〔(Prabook.org )〕〔 Data.Bnf ()〕 Her early researches often led to large outdoors architectonic sculptures made of steel, sometimes with the addition of granite, cement or wood.〔Collections Smithsonian institution (Gateway (sculpture) )〕 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.〔Albany.edu (Faculty, Exhibition Essay by Dan Cameron, Senior Curator at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City )〕 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).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Zabriskie Gallery | Marja Vallila )〕〔(NKC-National Library of the Czech Republic )〕〔(Google books )〕 As her health deteriorated, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee where, though locked in silence, she continues to work on paintings and ceramics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Goober (Artificial Flower) - Reflect N Us )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WOMEN TOUCH: CERAMICS | LOVEED FINE ARTS AT A.I.R. GALLERY )〕 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.〔 ceskatelevize.cz ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marja Vallila」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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