Word: chryssa
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Even before the official opening, four U.S. artists had already begun work and others were learning to transcribe their designs onto stones from which Mourlot will run off proofs. Jack Levine and Paul Jenkins are old hands, having used Mourlot in Paris, but Newcomers Claes Oldenburg and Chryssa are just learning how to make lithographs. Says Levine: "It should make a tremendous difference for American artists because there is nothing like Mourlot in the U.S. We used to have people like them at the turn of the century, I think, but the old craftsmen have disappeared here...
...preview of what the future may hold, New York City's Administration of Recreation and Cultural Affairs is staging a month-long display of 25 massive works by the most imaginative sculptors that its advisory committee could line up. A glittering concatenation of neon by Chryssa attracts commuters in Grand Central Station. Three giant dolls by Marisol face Central Park at 59th Street, black stabiles by Alexander Calder stand in Harlem, police cars parade through gigantic, candy-colored building blocks by Lyman Kipp in Central Park...
Meanwhile, sculptors, using materials untried in art, began building complex works that physically re-created the frenetic pace and brilliance of modern urban life. To Chryssa, all of Times Square's jangle of signs is one total work of art, and she has set out with neon tube and stainless steel to rival its garish, flickering magic. Kinetic Sculptor George Rickey equates movement with life itself; his own tall blades and semaphores sway in the wind above treetop level and are capable of almost infinite extension...
...Venice Biennale Prizewinner Julio Le Fare's black-and-white Pulsating Lights and other works of artists exploring light as an artistic medium. For the Los Angeles County Museum's forthcoming "American Sculpture of the Sixties" show, electricians were readying Stephen Antonakos' Orange Vertical Floor Neon, Chryssa's Fragments for the Gates to Times Square II and an untitled work by Dan Flavin. At the heart of the U.S. pavilion at Montreal's Expo 67, technicians were putting into place Robert Rauschenberg's brand-new illuminated watt-chamacallit...
...synthesis of street-scene pop and the cool world of science, Chryssa's Gates, like many other neon artists' works, is just a flickering glimpse of what pure light sources may someday offer when incorporated into art. Rembrandt depended on sunlight to unmask his carefully constructed layers of color. The impressionists struggled to depict in dabs of oils the natural light that bounced off haystacks into their eyes. Tomorrow's artists may ladle their color, at 60 cycles per second, right out of the rainbow...