"Focus on the Figure" is a selection of works by Bay Area artist Viola Frey that gives a visual history of her artistic process and demonstrates the evolution of her source material as it morphed from inspiration to model to maquette to artwork. It has been speculated that Frey's process may have begun in the refuse/junk piles on the Lodi ranch where she was raised, where broken or cast-off ornaments and implements became rediscovered objects recycled toward more interesting ends. Read more...