Adja Yunkers

Echo in Grey

c.1980s

Signed, dated, annotated "epreuve d'artiste"; Annotated on titled "B.B." Edition: 5 (5/5) Part of a set of 4 prints commissioned for a book Childs did with the German writer Bazon ...

Signed in pencil Edition 100 Printer: Styria Studio, Inc., NY, with their blindstamp This earlier (1966) sculpture of the same title is the inspiration of the portfolio. The sculpture is in the collection of the Albright Knox Museum. The screenprints follow the neon of the sculpture. Greek-born American sculptor Chryssa—who went by her first name professionally—died on December 23, 2013, reports Margalit Fox of the New York Times. Born in 1933 in Athens, Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali grew up during the Nazi occupation of Greece. After studying at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, and the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, she began incorporating neon into her fragmentary, text-based work. Her first solo exhibition in New York was held at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1961, which was quickly followed by shows at the Guggenheim, New York; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Her work is part of collections of major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Note: A set of Gates...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Smith is one of the most widely recognized people in the art world today, and one of the most prolific artists of her generation....

Myril Adler "Magic Grotto" c.1960s Collagraph ink on paper 2.25"x2.25" unframed Titled in pencil, estate stamp Myril Adler, was born on September 22, 1920 in Vitebsk, Russia (now Be...