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Chryssa Vardea-MavromichaliChinatown Portfolio II Plate Three Signed Silkscreen Large 40 x 38" Greek artist1978
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About the Item
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-Mavromichali was a Greek-born American sculptor best known for her monumental assemblages combining neon, bronze, aluminium, plaster, wood, canvas and paint as well as found objects, which prefigured both pop art and minimalism. Vardea studied in Paris and San Francisco, and in 1955 moved to New York, finding inspiration in the spectacle of the advertising neon signs of Times Square. Her interest in communication and the use of letters was first expressed through small baked-clay tablets entitled Cycladic Books 1955, followed by tablets and plaques with single letters, or variations on letter forms. Using neon since 1962, Vardea was one of the first artists to transform it from an advertising tool into an art material.
It was the same interest in the written word that inspired Chryssa Vardea’s most ambitious, monumental work, The Gates to Times Square (also known as ‘The Gates’), which was realised between 1964 and 1966. The work is Vardea’s homage to her experience of New York, to popular culture, advertising and mass communication. Consisting of two monumental letter As, incorporating fragments of commercial signs, the just under one-metresquare stainless steel, Plexiglas and neon sculpture invites visitors to walk through it, becoming physically immersed in the pale blue neon light with changing intensity and rhythm. Study for Gates No. 4 1967 is one of sixteen sculptures entitled Studies for Gates, which the artist produced both before and after the completion of the main work itself. The work takes a fragment of the monumental work, resembling the letter S, repeating it sixteen times, in eight double sets of blue neon
- Creator:Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali (1933 - 2013, Greek)
- Creation Year:1978
- Dimensions:Height: 35 in (88.9 cm)Width: 5 in (12.7 cm)Depth: 5 in (12.7 cm)
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- Condition:Unframed; never framed; gentle and unobtrusive handling.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU174529861032
Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
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.
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