Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali Art

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...

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. ...

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...

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

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

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. (...

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...

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

Modern grey and blue geometric abstract serigraph by Grecian artist Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali, better known as Chryssa. Influenced by the power of lettering and typography, the wor...

Chryssa Chinatown - 1979 Print - Serigraph   38.5'' x 31'' inches Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 204/250 Chryssa, (born Chryssa Vardea Mavomichal...

Date: circa 1975 Screenprint Image Size: 15.25 x 28 inches Size: 20.5 x 33.5 in. (52.07 x 85.09 cm)

Date: 1973 Screenprint Image Size: 28 x 15.5 inches Size: 33.5 x 20.5 in. (85.09 x 52.07 cm)

Chryssa Chinatown Portfolio II, Plate Three, ca. 1978 Silkscreen on thick wove paper 40 × 30 1/2 inches (Ships rolled in a tube measuring 35 x 5 x 5) Pencil signed and numbered 36/150 on the front; bears printers stamp on the back Unframed from the Chinatown Portfolio Printed by Atelier Arco in Paris (with stamp on the back of the print) from the Chinatown Portfolio Renowned Greek-American artist Chryssa was preoccupied with the concept of Chinese letters as art forms, which she explores in her Chinatown silkscreen series. Her deliberate experimentations yield an elegant and compelling result. Chryssa Biography Chryssa Vardea...

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...

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...

Untitled 7 Chryssa, Greek (1933–2013) Date: circa 1975 Screenprint Size: 33 in. x 20 in. (83.82 cm x 50.8 cm)

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. (...

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....

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)

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: P...

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)

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)

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)

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)

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...

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)

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 of inspiration for the Greek-born artist Chryssa Vardea...

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...

Date: 1975 Screenprint, signed, dated and dedicated in Crayon Image Size: 27 x 16 inches Size: 33.5 x 20.5 in. (85.09 x 52.07 cm)

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. (...

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. (...

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. (...

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

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...

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. ...

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...

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

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...

Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinese Characters (Tan on Silver) Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 125 Paper Si...

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. (...

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...

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...

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...

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)

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)

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)

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)

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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. (...

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 ...

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...

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) ...

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...

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)