Chryssa,
a Greek-born American sculptor who in the 1960s was one of the first
people to transform neon lighting from an advertising vehicle into a
fine art medium, died on Dec. 23. She was 79.
Her
death, which was reported in the Greek press, was not widely publicized
outside the country. Perhaps fittingly for an artist whose work
centered on enigma, the place of her death could not be confirmed; the
Greek news media reported that she was buried in Athens.
Chryssa, who used only her first name professionally, had lived variously in New York and Athens over the years.
A
builder of large-scale assemblages in a wide range of materials —
bronze, aluminum, plaster, wood, canvas, paint, found objects and, in
the case of neon, light itself — Chryssa, whose work prefigured
Minimalism and Pop Art, was considered a significant presence on the
American art scene in the ’60s and ’70s.
Exhibited
widely in the United States in those years, her art is in the
collections of major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the
Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York,
and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington.
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