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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...

Öyvind Axel Christian Fahlström (1928–1976) was a Swedish Multimedia artist. Fahlström was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, In July 1939 he was sent to Stockholm to visit some distant relatives and after World War II he started to study and later on to work as a writer, critic and journalist. From 1960 until 1976 he was married to the Swedish Pop Art painter Barbro Östlihn. In 1953 Fahlström had his first solo exhibition, showing the drawing Opera, a room-sized felt-pen drawing. Also in 1953 he wrote Hätila ragulpr på fåtskliaben, a manifesto for concrete poetry, published in Swedish the following year and in English translation (by Mary Ellen Solt, in her anthology "Concrete Poetry. A world view") in 1968. In 1956 Fahlström moved to Paris and lived there for three years before he moved to Front Street studio, New York City. In New York he worked with different artists and explored his role as an artist further. In 1962 he participated in the New Realists exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery, in New York City. His work was included in the 1964 Venice Biennale and he had a solo exhibition at Cordier & Ekstrom Inc., New York. In 1965 he joined the Sidney Janis Gallery. In 1966 his work Performance of Kisses Sweeter Than Wine was included in 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, organized by Experiments in Art and Technology at the 26th Street Armory, New York. The same year his painting in oil on photo...

Robert Indiana (American, 1928-2018) 'Love, Louisiana', 1972 An original screen printed exhibition poster presented at the Louisiana Museum near Cope...

Artist: Seymour Chwast Title: The Massage Parlor Year: circa 1979 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 250, AP 50 Image Size: 26 x 18.5 inches Paper Size: 30 ...

Artist: Robert Indiana, American (1928 - 2018) Title: Number 7 from the American Dream Portfolio Year: 1968 (1997) Medium: Screenprint on Wove Paper Edition Size: 395 Image Size: 16....

Limited Edition print from "The American Dream" Series Pop Art Serigraph Published in 1963 by Multiples, Inc. as a felt banner Robert Indiana New Glory Banner...

"Up Against the War Motherland" UC Berkeley Workshop April 26, 1970 Screenprint on computer paper 14.75"x22" unframed Unsigned Poster is printed on tracto...

Artist: John Matos "Crash" Title: Fist Medium: Serigraph Signed: Hand Signed Measurements: 14.5" x11" Edition Number: 122/160 Condition:Excellent. This piece has been stored in a...

This artwork titled "Wrapped Statues, Aegina Temple, Project for the Munich Glyptotek" from the "Official Arts Portfolio of the XXIV Olympic" 1988, is an original screen print with c...

Robert Indiana Colby ART (Sheehan, 80), 1973 Silkscreen in Colors on White Wove Paper Pencil signed and numbered 69/100 on the front with artist's copyright @Robert Indiana lower right front Published by Robert Indiana with copyright; Printed by Seri-Arts, Inc. Vintage metal frame included Classic early 1970s work. There was a time, we are told, when every prestigious collector in Germany would have an edition of Robert Indiana's iconic ART print prominently hanging in their home. This is an uncommon and desirable Robert Indiana piece from the early 1970s. Boldly signed in graphite on the recto (front), numbered and bearing the artist's copyright: @ Robert Indiana 1973...

Artist: Robert Indiana, American (1928 - 2018) Title: Oranges from the American Dream Portfolio Year: 1969 (1997) Medium: Serigraph Edition Size: 395 Image Size: 16.75 x 14 inches Si...

Artist: Kenny Scharf Title: 'Vring!' Size: 28 x 23 in (71.1 x 58.4 cm) Medium: Archival print with metallic accents, gloss overlays, and screen printed highlights on 100% Cotto...