Chryssa

Chryssa Vardea (December 31, 1933 - December 23, 2013), better known simply by her stage name Chryssa (or Chryssa), was an internationally renowned Greek-American sculptor and painter. Her works are in various museums, galleries and collections around the world. It was known for the use of materials such as aluminum, plaster and neon lights.

He was born in Athens, in 1933 in the area of ​​Zografou. Her family, although descended from the well-known family of Mani, the Mavromichalia, was poor, while her father had died before she met him. Initially he studied social welfare in Athens. A Greek critic persuades her family to send her to Paris. In 1953 he went to Paris, where he studied at the Grand Somer Academy for a year. In 1954 she left for America and continued her studies at the School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, California for another year. Since 1957, she has moved to New York, where she has set up her laboratory. There it will be influenced by Times Square and its lights. This area will be a source of inspiration for her [17]. In 1992 he returned to Athens for the first time in thirty-five years, setting up a laboratory in the New World, but then returned to America.

He passed away in Athens, on December 23, 2013