Vija Celmins is a Latvian American visual artist celebrated for her photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks. Her renderings, sometimes created through direct observation, but more often mediated by photography, lack a point of reference, horizon, or discernable depth of field. Working for months on a single image, Celmins’ nuanced palette of blacks and grays define her limitless spaces with an uncanny accuracy, highly attuned sense for organic detail and the elegance of imperfection.