Word: chryssa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neon tube, etching its innumerable messages across the skyline, is at least as familiar a sight to urban Americans as a tree or a dog. But not to a woman named Chryssa Mavromichaeli, when she arrived in the U.S. from Athens, age 21, in 1954. "I saw Times Square with its lights and letters, and it made me realize that they were as beautiful and as difficult to make as any Japanese calligraphy," she later recalled...
Taking a studio in Manhattan, Chryssa, as she came to be known professionally, produced Plexiglas, metal and neon sculptures and boxes with serried ranks and repetitions of forms based on lettering. They became familiar spectacles in Manhattan's galleries and museums during the '60s. Then, suffering from the blanket rejection of Pop art (with which it was vaguely and in fact wrongly connected), her work seemed to drop out of sight. As can be seen in her current show, which will travel from New York to Paris and Dusseldorf, her preoccupations remained constant and her sculptures became stronger...