Word: chryssa
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According to law student Chryssa V. Deliganis, the American public needs to understand that while "it's easy to get cynical when we see O.J. get off, it's the best system that we have...
Neon has become a museum item in another sense as well. Starting with pop art, sculptors have been exploring its expressive possibilities. The artist who calls herself Chryssa has used neon in major pieces since the 1960s. Last year Artist Stephen Antonakos created two monumental 96-ft. by 12-ft. abstract neon walls of apple green, red-orange, pink and blues inside the Tacoma Dome, a sports arena. Artist Joe Augusta, who is also a tube bender, shapes masklike faces like Elvis Machine in startling colors, and Los Angeles Artist Eric Zimmerman made a playful neon birthday cake...
...curb ready to make deliveries. In the '30s George Grosz did a series of watercolors: a childlike view of the harbor and a lurid skyline. Piet Mondrian, who spent the last four years of his life in Manhattan, found the city a perfect model for his grids; later Chryssa sculpted Times Square, appropriately, in fluorescent tubing...
...What Chryssa extracts from modern commercial symbolism is not its vulgarity and blatancy. Rather she attempts to distill its cool independence as form. "The less I am in love with 'nature' and 'people,' the clearer is my work," she explains. Craftsmanship is part of her art, and Chryssa's work is constructed with a sort of fastidious anonymity that rarely wavers off into slickness: ineloquent hieroglyphs reflected to infinity within their polished, night-colored cases...
...times, Chryssa's work is prone to the weaknesses that bedevil a good deal of other technology-oriented...