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Vardea Chryssa
Description
- Vardea Chryssa
- Abstract
signed lower right
- aluminium on metal support
- 136 by 132 by 46cm., 53½ by 52 by 18¼in.
Provenance
Purchased from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Catalogue Note
Born in Athens, Chryssa (Vardea) studied in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière between 1953-1954, and from 1954 to 1955 attended the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco. Following her studies, she worked in studios in New York City, working since 1992 in a studio in Athens.
While Chryssa works in a variety of media, she is best known as a pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture, often in the form of neon, steel, aluminium and acrylic glass installations. As early in her career as the 1960s and 1970s, Chryssa staged solo exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1961), the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (1965), Harvard University (1968), the Whitney Museum of American Art (1972) and the Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1979), and has works in some of the most important American and Greek collections.