For living proof of the determination and persistence required to conquer the art world, consider Magdalena Suarez Frimkess. Her artistic talent, first noted by nuns when she was 9 and living in a ...

Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, a Venezuelan-born and Los Angeles-based artist, is the focus of a LACMA exhibit opening Sunday, Aug. 18 of her works over five decades in a show titled, “Magdalena Suarez ...

In a new show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the zany work of a nonagenarian ceramicist with a mischievous eye delivers a refreshing twist on traditions in pottery. Magdalena Suarez ...

“I’m a survivor,” says Magdalena Suarez Frimkess. “Since I was a kid, that’s been the definition of my life. Whatever I have to do, I do it. I’m still surviving at 95.” For decades, this feisty ...

Artists using clay for sculpture, rather than craft, is a tradition in California, dating at least to the late 1950s. A number of exhibitions in recent years have tracked Peter Voulkos, Ken Price and ...

Artist Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, 95, talks with admirers during the preview for her first museum survey exhibition, "The Finest Disregard," at LACMA. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) For living ...

L.A.-based, Venezuela-born artist Magdalena Suarez Frimkess’ new show at LACMA is nearly a century in the making. By Michael Slenske “I’m a survivor,” says Magdalena Suarez Frimkess. “Since I was a ...