Vasa Mihich
Vasa Mihich (born 1933) is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California.
Born in Yugoslavia, Mihich has lived in Los Angeles since his arrival in the United States in 1960. He is an academically trained painter and was a senior Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Design | Media Arts for many years. Mihich taught theories of color to understand interdependence and interaction of color and form, color and quantity, color and placement, and after-image.
Now retired from teaching, Mihich focuses on his conceptual art practice. His studio, designed to accommodate the technology required for his work, is located in the heart of Los Angeles. He makes laminated plexiglass tubes that refract light, examples of which are held in the collection of the Denver Art Museum.[1]
He has had solo exhibitions at galleries in the United States, Japan, Italy and Serbia, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Palm Springs Desert Museum.
He is best known for his sculptures made from colored pieces of the plastic poly(methyl methacrylate), which is also known by the brand names Plexiglas and Lucite. Untitled from 1975, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates the effect of these minimalist sculptures. The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), the Honolulu Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.), the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Brussels), the San Diego Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Wilhelm Lehmbrech Museum (Duisberg, Germany) are among the public collections holding work by Vasa Mihich.[2]
References
- Aldrich, Larry (1966-07-01). "New Talent USA". Art in America.
- Mihich, Vasa, Vasa, Vasa Studio Inc., 2006
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