Viola Frey

Place: Lodi

Born: 1933

Death: 2004

Biography:

Viola Frey (August 15, 1933 – July 26, 2004) was an American artist working in sculpture, painting and drawing, and professor emerita at California College of the Arts. She lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area and was renowned for her larger-than-life, colorfully glazed clay sculptures of men and women, which expanded the traditional boundaries of ceramic sculpture. Born in 1933, Viola Frey grew up on her family's vineyard in Lodi, California.She received a BFA in 1956 from California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts), where she studied painting with Richard Diebenkorn and ceramics with Vernon 'Corky' Coykendall and Charles Fiske. Her fellow students included Robert Arneson, Manuel Neri and Nathan