Vasa Mihich

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Vasa Mihich is an academically trained painter and a senior Professor of Design at the University of California, Los Angeles. Born in Yugoslavia, Vasa has lived in Los Angeles since his arrival in the United States in 1960. His studio, designed to accommodate the technology required for his work, is located in the heart of Los Angeles. Here he creates and makes all of his art. An innovative sculptor, Vasa is best known for his luminous prism sculptures. For more than thirty years, his work has continuously evolved and changed as he has explored the absorption and reflection of pure light. Based on simple Euclidean shapes - the triangle, square, circle and rectangle, - his laminated acrylic forms are composed of layered filters of colored planes that vary according to the source and placement of ambient light.

Vasa’s sculptures are included in the permanent collections of many museums and corporations in the United States, Europe and Asia, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, California; Wilhelm Lehmbruek Museum, Duisber, Germany; Musees Royaux des Beaux- Arts de Belgique, Art Moderne, Brussels, Belgium; Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii; Milwaukee Art Center, Bradley Collection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California; Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California; and San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California.