Chryssa
Sign in to saveChryssa Vardea-Mavromichali (; 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, known for her neon, steel, aluminum and acrylic glass installations, she 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.
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- Born
- 1933
- Died
- 2013-01-01
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Chryssa, oeuvres récentes
- Chryssa, Kykladika vivlia, 1957-1996
- Chryssa '60-'90
- Chryssa: selected works, 1955-1967
- Chryssa
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Identification of two classes of gamma-ray bursts
· 1993 · cited 1,751x
- THE<i>FERMI</i>GAMMA-RAY BURST MONITOR
· 2009 · cited 1,351x
- A very energetic supernova associated with the γ-ray burst of 29 March 2003
· 2003 · cited 1,196x
- Dicer-deficient mouse embryonic stem cells are defective in differentiation and centromeric silencing
· 2005 · cited 1,016x
- A Survey of the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in the Greek Island of Lesbos: Hormonal and Metabolic Profile
· 1999 · cited 796x
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Key facts
- Artist.name
- Chryssa
- Artist.image
- Dog-chryssa-obit-blog427.jpg
- Artist.birth_name
- Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
- Artist.birth_place
- Athens, Greece
- Artist.death_place
- Athens, Greece
- Artist.education
- Académie de la Grande Chaumière, California School of Fine Arts
- Artist.field
- Luminist sculpture
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Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 1933
- Died
- 1 January 2013
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Greece
- Place of birth
- Athens
- Place of death
- Athens
- Occupation
- graphic artist
- Educated at
- San Francisco Art Institute
- Languages spoken
- Greek
- Participant in
- Documenta 6
Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Chryssa, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Article
10 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Major works and milestones
- 1957–1969
- From 1972
- Monographs
- Exhibitions and collections
- Solo exhibitions
- Group exhibitions
- Collections
- References
Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali (; 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, known for her neon, steel, aluminum and acrylic glass installations, she 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.
==Biography== Chryssa was born in Athens into the famous Mavromichalis family from the Mani Peninsula. Her family, while not rich, was educated and cultured; one of her sisters, who studied medicine, was a friend of the poet and novelist Nikos Kazantzakis. Shortly before her birth, Chryssa's father died, she was raised by her mother and two older sisters.
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1933 births2013 deaths20th-century American people of Greek descent20th-century American sculptors20th-century American women artists20th-century Greek sculptors20th-century Greek women artists21st-century American sculptors21st-century American women artists21st-century Greek sculptors21st-century Greek women artistsAlumni of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière