Chryssa

Major works and milestones

1957–1969 Chryssa's first major work was The Cycladic Books, a series of plaster reliefs which the French art critic Pierre Restany described as having produced "the purified and stylized geometric relief which is characteristic of Cycladic sculpture."

Chryssa's Untitled Light Sculpture, six large 'W's connected by cables and programmed electronically to create changing patterns of light through 900 feet of neon tubing, is suspended in the atrium of 33 West Monroe, a Skidmore, Owings & Merrill design and its former headquarters, in Chicago, Illinois.

Monographs A partial listing of monographs on Chryssa's work: 1997: Barbara Rose. Chryssa: Cycladic Books 1957–1962. Greece: Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art 1968: Diane Waldman. Chryssa: Selected Works 1955–1967. New York: Pace Gallery (48 pp.) . 1974: Sam Hunter. Chryssa. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (76 pp.) . 1977: Pierre Restany. Chryssa. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (274 pp.) . 1983: Douglas Schultz. Chryssa: Urban Icons. Buffalo: Albright-Knox (170 pp.) . 2024: Wrightwood 659

Group exhibitions 1961: Le Nouveau Réalisme à Paris et à New York, Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, June 1961 1963: Museum of Modern Art

Collections Albright-Knox Art Gallery Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Walker Art Center