Chryssa
Sign in to saveAlso known as Vardea Chryssa, Varden Chryssa, Varden M. Chryssa, Vardea M. Chryssa, Chryssa Vardea Mavromichali, V. Chryssa, Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichaeli, Varda Chryssa
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.
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- Born
- 1933
- 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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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Greece
- Place of birth
- Athens
- Place of death
- Athens
- Occupation
- artist
- Educated at
- San Francisco Art Institute
- Languages spoken
- Greek
- Participant in
- Documenta 6
- Image
- Dog-chryssa-obit-blog427.jpg
- Work location
- New York City
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- date of death
- 2013-01-01
- date of birth
- 1933-01-01
- Commons category
- Chryssa
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Art+Feminism
- start of work period
- 1955-01-01
- end of work period
- 1999-01-01
- pseudonym
- Chryssa Vardea Mauromichalē
Sources (7)
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Chryssa, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Available in 11 languages
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