Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Greek, 1933-2013
Chryssa, (born Chryssa Vardea Mavomichali) is best known for her "Luminist" sculpture in brilliantly colored neon tubing, was born in Greece and now ranks as one of the outstanding and innovative artists in America today.
Chryssa has had individual and collective exhibition shows at the Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim, The Whitney -New York. Harvard University; Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania; Carnegie Institute among many others.(Biography provided by Brightcolors)
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Artist: Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
1970's Large Silkscreen Abstract Geometric Day Glo Serigraph Pop Art Print Neon
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Surfside, FL
Silkscreen on Arches paper, Hand signed and Numbered in Pencil. Serigraph in blue gray (silver).
Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali (Greek: Χρύσα Βαρδέα-Μαυρομιχάλη; December 31, 1933 – December 23, 2013) was a Greek American artist who worked in a wide variety of media. An American art pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture widely known for her neon, steel, aluminum and acrylic glass installations, she has always used the mononym Chryssa professionally. She worked from the mid-1950s in New York City studios and worked since 1992 in the studio she established in Neos Kosmos, Athens, Greece.
Chryssa was born in Athens into the famous Mavromichalis family from the Mani Peninsula. one of her sisters, who studied medicine, was a friend of the poet and novelist Nikos Kazantzakis.
Chryssa began painting during her teenage years and also studied to be a social worker.In 1953, on the advice of a Greek art critic, her family sent her to Paris to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere where Andre Breton, Edgard Varese, and Max Ernst were among her associates and Alberto Giacometti was a visiting professor.
In 1954, at age twenty-one, Chryssa sailed for the United States, arrived in New York and went to San Francisco, California to study at the California School of Fine Arts. Returning to New York in 1955, she became a United States citizen and established a studio in the city.
Chryssa's first major work was The Cycladic Books preceded American minimalism by seventeen years.
1961, Chryssa's first solo exhibition was mounted at The Guggenheim.
1963, Chryssa's work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in curator Dorothy Canning Miller's Americans 1963 exhibition. The artists represented in the show also included Richard Anuszkiewicz, Lee Bontecou, Robert Indiana, Richard Lindner, Marisol, Claes Oldenburg, Ad Reinhardt, James Rosenquist and others.
1966, The Gates to Times Square, regarded as "one of the most important American sculptures of all time" and "a thrilling homage to the living American culture of advertising and mass communications." The work is a 10 ft cube installation of two huge letter 'A's through which visitors may walk into "a gleaming block of stainless steel and Plexiglas that seems to quiver in the play of pale blue neon light" which is controlled by programmed timers. First shown in Manhattan's Pace Gallery, it was given to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York in 1972.
1972, The Whitney Museum of American Art mounted a solo exhibition of works by Chryssa.
That's All (early 1970s), the central panel of a triptych related to The Gates of Times Square, was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art between 1975 and 1979.
1973, Chryssa's solo exhibition at the Gallerie Denise René was reviewed for TIME magazine by art critic Robert Hughes before it went on to the Galleries Denise René in Düsseldorf and Paris.
Other works by Chryssa in composite honeycomb aluminum and neon in the 1980s and 1990s include Chinatown, Siren, Urban Traffic, and Flapping Birds.
Chryssa 60/90 retrospective exhibition in Athens in the Mihalarias Art Center. After her long absence from Greece, a major exhibition including large aluminum sculptures - cityscapes, "neon boxes" from the Gates to the Times Square, paintings, drawings etc. was held in Athens.
In 1992, after closing her SoHo studio, which art dealer Leo Castelli had described as "one of the loveliest in the world," Chryssa returned to Greece. She found a derelict cinema which had become a storeroom stacked with abandoned school desks and chairs, behind the old Fix Brewery near the city center in Neos Kosmos, Athens. Using the desks to construct enormous benches, she converted the space into a studio for working on designs and aluminum composite honeycomb sculptures. The Athens National Museum of Contemporary Art, which was founded in 2000 and owns Chryssa's Cycladic Books, is in the process of converting the Fix Brewery into its permanent premises.
Greek Exhibits, European Cultural Center of Delphi (Council of Europe). "Apollo's Heritage"(July 4, 2003 – July 30, 2003). Works by sixteen artists: Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Nikos Engonopoulos, Yannis...
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1980s Pop Art Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Untitled-27 - Conceptual Art Screenprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled-27
Chryssa, Greek (1933–2013)
Date: circa 1980
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 125
Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Times Square Fragment XII - Conceptual Art Screenprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Times Square Fragment XII
Chryssa, Greek (1933–2013)
Date: circa 1979
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of AP 11
Size: 37 in. x 25 in. (93.98 cm x 63.5 cm)
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Chinatown 6, Conceptual Art Screenprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Chinatown 6
Chryssa, Greek (1933–2013)
Date: circa 1979
Screenprint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition of 66/250
Size: 38 x 31 in. (96.52 x 78.74 cm)
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1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Series 1, Conceptual Art Screenprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Series 1
Chryssa, Greek (1933–2013)
Date: circa 1979
Screenprint on Arches, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition of AP 11/20
Size: 31.5 in. x 31.5 in. (80.01 cm x 80.01 cm)
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1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Times Square Fragment #8 - Conceptual Art Screenprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Times Square Fragment #8
Chryssa, Greek (1933–2013)
Date: 1979
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 300
Size: 32 in. x 25 in. (81.28 cm x 63.5 cm)
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1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Untitled 7 - Conceptual Art Screenprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled 7
Chryssa, Greek (1933–2013)
Date: circa 1975
Screenprint, Signed in pencil
Size: 33 in. x 20 in. (83.82 cm x 50.8 cm)
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1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Chinatown 8, Conceptual Art Screenprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Chinatown 8
Chryssa, Greek (1933–2013)
Date: circa 1979
Screenprint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition of 66/250
Size: 38 x 31 in. (96.52 x 78.74 cm)
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1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Untitled - Chinese Characters - Conceptual Art Screenprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - Chinese Characters (Red on Mauve)
Chryssa, Greek (1933–2013)
Date: circa 1979
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 125
Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
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1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Chinatown Portfolio 2, Image 6 - Conceptual Art Screenprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Chinatown Portfolio 2, Image 6
Chryssa, Greek (1933–2013)
Date: circa 1978
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 150
Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (101.6 cm x 77.47 cm)
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1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Chinatown 2, Conceptual Art Screenprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Chinatown 2
Chryssa, Greek (1933–2013)
Date: circa 1979
Screenprint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition of 66/250
Size: 38 x 31 in. (96.52 x 78.74 cm)
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Chinatown 3, Conceptual Art Screenprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Chinatown 3
Chryssa, Greek (1933–2013)
Date: circa 1979
Screenprint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition of 66/250
Size: 38 x 31 in. (96.52 x 78.74 cm)
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 12
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 12
Year: circa 1978
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150
Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
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1970s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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1980's Large Silkscreen Chinese Characters Serigraph Pop Art Print China
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Surfside, FL
Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali (Greek: Χρύσα Βαρδέα-Μαυρομιχάλη; December 31, 1933 – December 23, 2013) was a Greek American artist who worked in a wide variety of media. An American art pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture widely known for her neon, steel, aluminum and acrylic glass installations, she has always used the mononym Chryssa professionally. She worked from the mid-1950s in New York City studios and worked since 1992 in the studio she established in Neos Kosmos, Athens, Greece.
Chryssa was born in Athens into the famous Mavromichalis family from the Mani Peninsula. one of her sisters, who studied medicine, was a friend of the poet and novelist Nikos Kazantzakis.
Chryssa began painting during her teenage years and also studied to be a social worker.In 1953, on the advice of a Greek art critic, her family sent her to Paris to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere where Andre Breton, Edgard Varese, and Max Ernst were among her associates and Alberto Giacometti was a visiting professor.
In 1954, at age twenty-one, Chryssa sailed for the United States, arrived in New York and went to San Francisco, California to study at the California School of Fine Arts. Returning to New York in 1955, she became a United States citizen and established a studio in the city.
Chryssa's first major work was The Cycladic Books preceded American minimalism by seventeen years.
1961, Chryssa's first solo exhibition was mounted at The Guggenheim.
1963, Chryssa's work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in curator Dorothy Canning Miller's Americans 1963 exhibition. The artists represented in the show also included Richard Anuszkiewicz, Lee Bontecou, Robert Indiana, Richard Lindner, Marisol, Claes Oldenburg, Ad Reinhardt, James Rosenquist and others.
1966, The Gates to Times Square, regarded as "one of the most important American sculptures of all time" and "a thrilling homage to the living American culture of advertising and mass communications." The work is a 10 ft cube installation of two huge letter 'A's through which visitors may walk into "a gleaming block of stainless steel and Plexiglas that seems to quiver in the play of pale blue neon light" which is controlled by programmed timers. First shown in Manhattan's Pace Gallery, it was given to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York in 1972.
1972, The Whitney Museum of American Art mounted a solo exhibition of works by Chryssa.
That's All (early 1970s), the central panel of a triptych related to The Gates of Times Square, was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art between 1975 and 1979.
1973, Chryssa's solo exhibition at the Gallerie Denise René was reviewed for TIME magazine by art critic Robert Hughes before it went on to the Galleries Denise René in Düsseldorf and Paris.
Other works by Chryssa in composite honeycomb aluminum and neon in the 1980s and 1990s include Chinatown, Siren, Urban Traffic, and Flapping Birds.
Chryssa 60/90 retrospective exhibition in Athens in the Mihalarias Art Center. After her long absence from Greece, a major exhibition including large aluminum sculptures - cityscapes, "neon boxes" from the Gates to the Times Square, paintings, drawings etc. was held in Athens.
In 1992, after closing her SoHo studio, which art dealer Leo Castelli had described as "one of the loveliest in the world," Chryssa returned to Greece. She found a derelict cinema which had become a storeroom stacked with abandoned school desks and chairs, behind the old Fix Brewery near the city center in Neos Kosmos, Athens. Using the desks to construct enormous benches, she converted the space into a studio for working on designs and aluminum composite honeycomb sculptures. The Athens National Museum of Contemporary Art, which was founded in 2000 and owns Chryssa's Cycladic Books, is in the process of converting the Fix Brewery into its permanent premises.
Greek Exhibits, European Cultural Center of Delphi (Council of Europe). "Apollo's Heritage"(July 4, 2003 – July 30, 2003). Works by sixteen artists: Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Nikos Engonopoulos, Yannis Tsarouchis, Giorgos Sikeliotis, Takis, Arman, Fernando Botero, Chryssa, Dimitris Mytaras...
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Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 11
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 11
Year: circa 1978
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150
Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. ...
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1970s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Times Square Fragment #2
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Times Square Fragment #2
Year: 1979
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 300; AP 35
Paper Size: 39 in. x 25 in. (99...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 7
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 7
Year: circa 1978
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150
Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (1...
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1970s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Times Square Fragment #4
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Times Square Fragment #4
Year: 1979
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 300; AP 35
Paper Size: 39 in. x 25 in. (99...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 5
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 5
Year: circa 1978
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150
Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
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1970s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Chinatown Portfolio #1, 97/250
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Chryssa (Greek, born 1933)
Chinatown Portfolio #1
Year: 1978
Medium: Screenprint on wove paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 97/250
Edition: 250
Dimension: 38 1/4 x 31 1/4i...
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1970s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Times Square Fragment #7
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Times Square Fragment #7
Year: 1979
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 300; AP 35
Paper Size: 39 in. x 25 in. (99...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Four Seasons
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
This serigraph was created by Greek artist Chryssa. An American art pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture widely known for her neon, steel, aluminum and acrylic glass installat...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 2
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 2
Year: circa 1978
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150
Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
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1980s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Times Square Fragment #9
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Times Square Fragment #9
Year: 1979
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 300; AP 35
Paper Size: 38 x 25 inches
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1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Times Square Fragment 6
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Times Square Fragment #6
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 300; AP 35
Paper Size: 37 x 25 inche...
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1980s Contemporary Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Chinatown Portfolio #9, 97/250
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Chryssa (Greek, born 1933)
Chinatown Portfolio #9
Year: 1978
Medium: Screenprint on wove paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 97/250
Edition: 250
Dimension: 38 1/4 x 31 1/4i...
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1970s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Screen
Chinatown Portfolio #6, 97/250
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Chryssa (Greek, born 1933)
Chinatown Portfolio #6
Year: 1978
Medium: Screenprint on wove paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 97/250
Edition: 250
Dimension: 38 1/4 x 31 1/4i...
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1970s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Screen
Times Square Fragment #10
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Times Square Fragment #10
Year: 1979
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 300; AP 35
Paper Size: 40 x 25 inches
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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"Repetition" Chryssa, Greek Female Artist, Abstract, Neon Light Art Study
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in New York, NY
Chryssa
Repetition
Signed lower right; titled on the reverse
Gouache, watercolor, charcoal, and graphite on paper
15 x 11 inches
Born and educated in Athens, Greece, Vardea Chryssa, known professionally as Chryssa, became a U.S. citizen and earned a reputation for her sculptured assemblages utilizing light from neon, and plexiglas combined with mixed media pieces. One of her pieces, Untitled Light Sculpture (1980) is 22 feet long and is installed in the atrium of a building at 33 Monroe Street in Chicago. It was programmed electronically to create changing patterns of reflected light through 900 feet of neon tubing.
Chryssa's sculptures with precision and definite form were a reaction against the prevalent Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s with its emphasis purely upon the artist's intent. In her work, the focus is on materials and the way they are shaped for specific use by craftsmen.
She got her early education in Athens, and first studied to be a social worker. She was then sent by the Greek Ministry of Social Welfare to the Dodecanese Islands and later to the Ionian Sea island of Zante, whose population had suffered great loss from earthquakes. Disillusioned that monies were being provided to restore monasteries but not to help other earthquake victims, Chryssa changed her life's direction to become a painter. In Athens, she studied art with Anghelos Prokopion.
Then she went to Paris, France, and studied briefly at the Academie Grande Chaumiere and associated with surrealists Andre Breton, Edgard Varese, and Max Ernst. In 1954, she moved to San Francisco, California for a year of study at the California School of Fine Arts, and there she first saw the work of Jackson Pollock, which had a freeing affect on her and inspired her to experiment with pure form. But later she reacted against action painting with her assemblage sculptures of controlled precision.
In 1955, Chryssa settled in New York City, and became the first artist to incorporate neon light tubing and commercial signs into sculpture. It is asserted that her "mature work grew out of the Greek experience, before and after World War II, wedded to the raucous letters, signs, symbols, and lights of Time Square, New York City" (Heller 125). In fact, she was so taken with the lights of Times Square that she unsuccessfully tried to get a job as a sign maker but was prevented by labor union rules. However, one of the members gave her sign-making lessons in his shop.
She first made Pop images such as depictions of automobile tires and cigarettes and in sculptures, utilized letters of the alphabet, ideas that predated similar images by Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. Her first major work of interwoven light and letters was Times Square Sky of 1962, but she was dissatisfied because she thought the piece was too crowded. To create a sense of breathing, she inserted neon light, and for the first time, this material became an art medium.
From that time, she was prolific and created many variations based on the letters W and A. For her, a primary motivating factor was remaining cool or mentally collected amidst the onslaught of bombarding information and to process it through her creations in new ways so that nothing was repeated. She set up her own work place...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Gouache, Graphite, Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
Chryssa 1979 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print Chinatown Series Red
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Chryssa
Chinatown - 1979
Print - Serigraph 38.5'' x 31'' inches
Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 204/250
Chryssa, (born Chryssa Vardea Mavomichali) is best known for her "Lumi...
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1970s Abstract Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Chryssa 1979 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print Chinatown Series Tan
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Chryssa
Chinatown - 1979
Print - Serigraph 38.5'' x 31'' inches
Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 207/250
The bright lights and signage of Manhattan became an important source ...
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1970s Abstract Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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1970's Large Silkscreen Abstract Geometric Day Glo Serigraph Pop Art Print Neon
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Surfside, FL
Silkscreen on Arches paper, Hand signed and Numbered in Pencil. Serigraph in yellow, red, silver
Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali (Greek: Χρύσα Βαρδέα-Μαυρομιχάλη; December 31, 1933 – December 23, 2013) was a Greek American artist who worked in a wide variety of media. An American art pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture widely known for her neon, steel, aluminum and acrylic glass installations, she has always used the mononym Chryssa professionally. She worked from the mid-1950s in New York City studios and worked since 1992 in the studio she established in Neos Kosmos, Athens, Greece.
Chryssa was born in Athens into the famous Mavromichalis family from the Mani Peninsula. one of her sisters, who studied medicine, was a friend of the poet and novelist Nikos Kazantzakis.
Chryssa began painting during her teenage years and also studied to be a social worker.In 1953, on the advice of a Greek art critic, her family sent her to Paris to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere where Andre Breton, Edgard Varese, and Max Ernst were among her associates and Alberto Giacometti was a visiting professor.
In 1954, at age twenty-one, Chryssa sailed for the United States, arrived in New York and went to San Francisco, California to study at the California School of Fine Arts. Returning to New York in 1955, she became a United States citizen and established a studio in the city.
Chryssa's first major work was The Cycladic Books preceded American minimalism by seventeen years.
1961, Chryssa's first solo exhibition was mounted at The Guggenheim.
1963, Chryssa's work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in curator Dorothy Canning Miller's Americans 1963 exhibition. The artists represented in the show also included Richard Anuszkiewicz, Lee Bontecou, Robert Indiana, Richard Lindner, Marisol, Claes Oldenburg, Ad Reinhardt, James Rosenquist and others.
1966, The Gates to Times Square, regarded as "one of the most important American sculptures of all time" and "a thrilling homage to the living American culture of advertising and mass communications." The work is a 10 ft cube installation of two huge letter 'A's through which visitors may walk into "a gleaming block of stainless steel and Plexiglas that seems to quiver in the play of pale blue neon light" which is controlled by programmed timers. First shown in Manhattan's Pace Gallery, it was given to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York in 1972.
1972, The Whitney Museum of American Art mounted a solo exhibition of works by Chryssa.
That's All (early 1970s), the central panel of a triptych related to The Gates of Times Square, was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art between 1975 and 1979.
1973, Chryssa's solo exhibition at the Gallerie Denise René was reviewed for TIME magazine by art critic Robert Hughes before it went on to the Galleries Denise René in Düsseldorf and Paris.
Other works by Chryssa in composite honeycomb aluminum and neon in the 1980s and 1990s include Chinatown, Siren, Urban Traffic, and Flapping Birds.
Chryssa 60/90 retrospective exhibition in Athens in the Mihalarias Art Center. After her long absence from Greece, a major exhibition including large aluminum sculptures - cityscapes, "neon boxes" from the Gates to the Times Square, paintings, drawings etc. was held in Athens.
In 1992, after closing her SoHo studio, which art dealer Leo Castelli had described as "one of the loveliest in the world," Chryssa returned to Greece. She found a derelict cinema which had become a storeroom stacked with abandoned school desks and chairs, behind the old Fix Brewery near the city center in Neos Kosmos, Athens. Using the desks to construct enormous benches, she converted the space into a studio for working on designs and aluminum composite honeycomb sculptures. The Athens National Museum of Contemporary Art, which was founded in 2000 and owns Chryssa's Cycladic Books, is in the process of converting the Fix Brewery into its permanent premises.
Greek Exhibits, European Cultural Center of Delphi (Council of Europe). "Apollo's Heritage"(July 4, 2003 – July 30, 2003). Works by sixteen artists: Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Nikos Engonopoulos, Yannis...
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1980s Pop Art Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Screen
Chinatown Portfolio II, Plate Three
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in New York, NY
Chryssa
Chinatown Portfolio II, Plate Three, ca. 1978
Silkscreen on thick wove paper
40 × 30 1/2 inches
Pencil signed and numbered 36/150 on the front; bears printers stamp on the ba...
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1970s Abstract Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Pencil, Screen
Untitled From: Gates to Times Square (20 screenprints & 2 lithographs)
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
From: Gates to Times Square (20 screenprints, two with additional lithography)
Silkscreen, c. 1978
Signed in pencil (see photo)
Edition 100 (90/100) (see photo)
Publisher: Prestige Art, Ltd., Mamaroneck, NY
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...
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1970s Abstract Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Screen
1970's Large Silkscreen Abstract Geometric Day Glo Serigraph Pop Art Print Neon
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Surfside, FL
Silkscreen on Arches paper, Hand signed and Numbered in Pencil. Serigraph in white, back, blue gray (silver).
Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali (Greek: Χρύσα Βαρδέα-Μαυρομιχάλη; December 31, 1933 – December 23, 2013) was a Greek American artist who worked in a wide variety of media. An American art pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture widely known for her neon, steel, aluminum and acrylic glass installations, she has always used the mononym Chryssa professionally. She worked from the mid-1950s in New York City studios and worked since 1992 in the studio she established in Neos Kosmos, Athens, Greece.
Chryssa was born in Athens into the famous Mavromichalis family from the Mani Peninsula. one of her sisters, who studied medicine, was a friend of the poet and novelist Nikos Kazantzakis.
Chryssa began painting during her teenage years and also studied to be a social worker.In 1953, on the advice of a Greek art critic, her family sent her to Paris to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere where Andre Breton, Edgard Varese, and Max Ernst were among her associates and Alberto Giacometti was a visiting professor.
In 1954, at age twenty-one, Chryssa sailed for the United States, arrived in New York and went to San Francisco, California to study at the California School of Fine Arts. Returning to New York in 1955, she became a United States citizen and established a studio in the city.
Chryssa's first major work was The Cycladic Books preceded American minimalism by seventeen years.
1961, Chryssa's first solo exhibition was mounted at The Guggenheim.
1963, Chryssa's work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in curator Dorothy Canning Miller's Americans 1963 exhibition. The artists represented in the show also included Richard Anuszkiewicz, Lee Bontecou, Robert Indiana, Richard Lindner, Marisol, Claes Oldenburg, Ad Reinhardt, James Rosenquist and others.
1966, The Gates to Times Square, regarded as "one of the most important American sculptures of all time" and "a thrilling homage to the living American culture of advertising and mass communications." The work is a 10 ft cube installation of two huge letter 'A's through which visitors may walk into "a gleaming block of stainless steel and Plexiglas that seems to quiver in the play of pale blue neon light" which is controlled by programmed timers. First shown in Manhattan's Pace Gallery, it was given to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York in 1972.
1972, The Whitney Museum of American Art mounted a solo exhibition of works by Chryssa.
That's All (early 1970s), the central panel of a triptych related to The Gates of Times Square, was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art between 1975 and 1979.
1973, Chryssa's solo exhibition at the Gallerie Denise René was reviewed for TIME magazine by art critic Robert Hughes before it went on to the Galleries Denise René in Düsseldorf and Paris.
Other works by Chryssa in composite honeycomb aluminum and neon in the 1980s and 1990s include Chinatown, Siren, Urban Traffic, and Flapping Birds.
Chryssa 60/90 retrospective exhibition in Athens in the Mihalarias Art Center. After her long absence from Greece, a major exhibition including large aluminum sculptures - cityscapes, "neon boxes" from the Gates to the Times Square, paintings, drawings etc. was held in Athens.
In 1992, after closing her SoHo studio, which art dealer Leo Castelli had described as "one of the loveliest in the world," Chryssa returned to Greece. She found a derelict cinema which had become a storeroom stacked with abandoned school desks and chairs, behind the old Fix Brewery near the city center in Neos Kosmos, Athens. Using the desks to construct enormous benches, she converted the space into a studio for working on designs and aluminum composite honeycomb sculptures. The Athens National Museum of Contemporary Art, which was founded in 2000 and owns Chryssa's Cycladic Books, is in the process of converting the Fix Brewery into its permanent premises.
Greek Exhibits, European Cultural Center of Delphi (Council of Europe). "Apollo's Heritage"(July 4, 2003 – July 30, 2003). Works by sixteen artists: Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Nikos Engonopoulos, Yannis Tsarouchis...
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1980s Pop Art Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Screen
1970's Large Silkscreen Abstract Geometric Day Glo Serigraph Pop Art Print Neon
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Surfside, FL
Silkscreen on Arches paper, Hand signed and Numbered in Pencil. Serigraph in black, gray (silver).
Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali (Greek: Χρύσα Βαρδέα-Μαυρομιχάλη; December 31, 1933 – December 23, 2013) was a Greek American artist who worked in a wide variety of media. An American art pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture widely known for her neon, steel, aluminum and acrylic glass installations, she has always used the mononym Chryssa professionally. She worked from the mid-1950s in New York City studios and worked since 1992 in the studio she established in Neos Kosmos, Athens, Greece.
Chryssa was born in Athens into the famous Mavromichalis family from the Mani Peninsula. one of her sisters, who studied medicine, was a friend of the poet and novelist Nikos Kazantzakis.
Chryssa began painting during her teenage years and also studied to be a social worker.In 1953, on the advice of a Greek art critic, her family sent her to Paris to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere where Andre Breton, Edgard Varese, and Max Ernst were among her associates and Alberto Giacometti was a visiting professor.
In 1954, at age twenty-one, Chryssa sailed for the United States, arrived in New York and went to San Francisco, California to study at the California School of Fine Arts. Returning to New York in 1955, she became a United States citizen and established a studio in the city.
Chryssa's first major work was The Cycladic Books preceded American minimalism by seventeen years.
1961, Chryssa's first solo exhibition was mounted at The Guggenheim.
1963, Chryssa's work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in curator Dorothy Canning Miller's Americans 1963 exhibition. The artists represented in the show also included Richard Anuszkiewicz, Lee Bontecou, Robert Indiana, Richard Lindner, Marisol, Claes Oldenburg, Ad Reinhardt, James Rosenquist and others.
1966, The Gates to Times Square, regarded as "one of the most important American sculptures of all time" and "a thrilling homage to the living American culture of advertising and mass communications." The work is a 10 ft cube installation of two huge letter 'A's through which visitors may walk into "a gleaming block of stainless steel and Plexiglas that seems to quiver in the play of pale blue neon light" which is controlled by programmed timers. First shown in Manhattan's Pace Gallery, it was given to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York in 1972.
1972, The Whitney Museum of American Art mounted a solo exhibition of works by Chryssa.
That's All (early 1970s), the central panel of a triptych related to The Gates of Times Square, was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art between 1975 and 1979.
1973, Chryssa's solo exhibition at the Gallerie Denise René was reviewed for TIME magazine by art critic Robert Hughes before it went on to the Galleries Denise René in Düsseldorf and Paris.
Other works by Chryssa in composite honeycomb aluminum and neon in the 1980s and 1990s include Chinatown, Siren, Urban Traffic, and Flapping Birds.
Chryssa 60/90 retrospective exhibition in Athens in the Mihalarias Art Center. After her long absence from Greece, a major exhibition including large aluminum sculptures - cityscapes, "neon boxes" from the Gates to the Times Square, paintings, drawings etc. was held in Athens.
In 1992, after closing her SoHo studio, which art dealer Leo Castelli had described as "one of the loveliest in the world," Chryssa returned to Greece. She found a derelict cinema which had become a storeroom stacked with abandoned school desks and chairs, behind the old Fix Brewery near the city center in Neos Kosmos, Athens. Using the desks to construct enormous benches, she converted the space into a studio for working on designs and aluminum composite honeycomb sculptures. The Athens National Museum of Contemporary Art, which was founded in 2000 and owns Chryssa's Cycladic Books, is in the process of converting the Fix Brewery into its permanent premises.
Greek Exhibits, European Cultural Center of Delphi (Council of Europe). "Apollo's Heritage"(July 4, 2003 – July 30, 2003). Works by sixteen artists: Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Nikos Engonopoulos, Yannis...
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1980s Pop Art Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
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Screen
New York Times, Silkscreen by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: New York Times (CE)
Year: Circa 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 300; AP 35
Paper Size: 38 x 25 inches
Category
1980s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Screen
Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 3
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 3
Year: circa 1978
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150
Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
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1970s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Screen
Times Square Fragment #5
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Times Square Fragment #10
Year: 1979
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 300; AP 35
Paper Size: 40 x 25 inches
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Screen
Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 1, Silkscreen by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 1
Year: circa 1978
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150
Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
Category
1970s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Screen
Chinese Characters, Silkscreen by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Chinese Characters (Tan on Silver)
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 125
Paper Si...
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1980s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Screen
"Tranquility #5, " Serigraph, 1979
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
This serigraph was created by Greek artist Chryssa. An American art pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture widely known for her neon, steel, and acrylic glass installations, Chr...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Screen
Classified Ad, Monoprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Classified Ad
Year: 1977
Medium: Silkscreen and Acrylic Monoprint on Paper, signed, dated and titled in pencil
Image Size: 14.5 x 22 inche...
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1970s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Monoprint
American Newsprint, Monoprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: American Newsprint
Year: 1977
Medium: Silkscreen and Acrylic Monoprint on Paper, signed, dated and titled in pencil
Image Size: 13 x 21.5 ...
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1970s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Monoprint
Series 2
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Series 2
Year: circa 1979
Medium: Silkscreen on Arches, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition: AP 11/20
Size: 31.5 x 34 inches
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Screen
Jobs and Employment Classifieds, Monoprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Jobs and Employment Classifieds
Year: 1982
Medium: Monoprint Silkscreen, signed l.r.
Image Size: 29.5 x 21 inches
Size: 39 in. x 29.5 in. ...
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1980s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Monotype
Untitled From: Gates to Times Square (20 screenprints, 2 lithographic additions)
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Fairlawn, OH
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...
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1970s Abstract Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Screen
Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 4
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 4
Year: circa 1978
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150
Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
Category
1970s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Screen
Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 8, Silkscreen by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 8
Year: circa 1978
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150
Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
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1970s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Screen
Series 4
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Series 4
Year: circa 1979
Medium: Silkscreen on Arches, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition: AP 11/20
Size: 31....
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Screen
Series 3
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Series 3
Year: circa 1979
Medium: Silkscreen on Arches, Signed and Numbered in Pencil
Edition: AP 11/20
Size: 34 x 31.5 inches
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Screen
Study for a Neon Sculpture, Conceptual Art Watercolor by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
This is a unique watercolor study by Greek neon artist Chryssa. Although it does not closely resemble any of her known completed works, the forms are similar to her series "Analysis ...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Watercolor
Chinatown Portfolio, 12 Silkscreens by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Chinatown Portfolio
Year: circa 1978
Medium: 12 Screenprints, each signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150
Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (10...
Category
1970s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Screen
U.S.A., Neon Light Box Sculpture by Chryssa, 1962
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
This is a unique neon sculpture in plexi-box with stand. It is the very first completed Neon Sculpture by the famed sculptor and referenced in the monograph "Chryssa" by Pierre Restany. Chryssa, a Greek-born American sculptor who in the 1960s was one of the first people to transform neon lighting from an advertising vehicle into a fine art medium. A builder of large-scale assemblages in a wide range of materials — bronze, aluminum, plaster, wood, canvas, paint, found objects and, in the case of neon, light itself — Chryssa, whose work prefigured Minimalism and Pop Art, was considered a significant presence on the American art scene in the ’60s and ’70s. Exhibited widely in the United States in those years, her art is in the collections of major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington.
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: USA, First Preparartory Work For a Neon Box...
Category
1960s Contemporary Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Neon Light
Experimentation for Chinatown
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Experimentation for Chinatown
Year: 1977
Medium: Acrylic on Paper, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
...
Category
1970s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Color Chart for Chinatown Nighttime
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Color Chart for Chinatown Nighttime
Year: 1977
Medium: Acrylic on Paper , signed and dated l.r.
Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55.88 cm x 76.2...
Category
1970s Conceptual Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
The Pill
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: PILL
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Plexi-Glass 3-D Construction
Size: 39 in. x 28 in. x 5 in. (99.06 cm x 71.12 cm x 12.7 cm)
Frame Size: ...
Category
1970s Modern Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Plexiglass
Chinatown II, Oil Painting by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013)
Title: Chinatown II
Year: circa 1978
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed verso
Size: 43 in. x 31 in. (109.22 cm x 78.74 cm)
Category
1970s Pop Art Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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