4 1/2 x 6 x 1 3/8 inches (prism)
artist
Academically trained as a painter, Vasa Mihich originally taught theories of color as a senior Professor of Design at the University of California, Los Angeles. The octogenarian artist has been creating his striking transparent plastics since the late 1960’s in his Los Angeles studio and continues to this day to be a forward-thinking innovator.
Mihich continues to explore the possibilities and development of these cast acrylic sculptures and their accompanying medium. Henry Seldis, the former art critic for the Los Angeles Times, refers to Mihich as “the most sensuous and sensational colorist of the Southern California artists working in plastic.”
Description
Columns is a desktop size example of Mihich’s monumental Tower series of columns. His choice of pastel colors in this piece is joyous and light-hearted in nature. These works highlight the interdependence and interaction of color with such other aesthetic aspects as form, quantity, and placement. Academic theories of color and space influenced Mihich’s creation of acrylic sculptures, which both reflect and refract the light.
provenance
Private collection to Butterscotch Auction, Pound Ridge, NY, March 2021