"Untitled" (1971) was part of the exhibition “Chryssa: Eccentric Abstraction” at Blue Velvet Projects in 2022, Chryssa's first solo exhibition in Switzerland. The show brought together some of Chryssa’s revolutionary sculptures, paintings, and works on paper, of which "Untitled" is a unique example.
About the Artist
Chryssa (b. 1933) was a Greek-American artist who made pioneering work in New York from the 1950s onward. Using different media such as drawings, lights, optics, and found objects, Chryssa re-defined the viewer’s relationship with space and time. As a woman artist Chryssa challenged the patriarchal culture of that time, by embracing the more complicated emotions that arise within the vocabulary of freedom. She died in 2013.
Recent exhibitions
2024 Wrightwood 659, Chicago
2023 Menil Collection, Houston
2023 Dia Chelsea, NY
2022 Blue Velvet Projects, Zürich
2017 Documenta XVI, Kassel
Education
1953-1954, Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris
date
1971
material
Gouache on wove paper
size
38,5 x 29,5 cm
framed
No
gallery
Blue Velvet Projects