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Four Columns #1447
Four Columns #1447
Four Columns #1447
Four Columns #1447
Four Columns #1447
Four Columns #1447, 1979
Vasa Velizar Mihich
Cast acrylic in fitted wood base
76 x 30 x 12 inches
Incised with signature, number, and date: #1447 Vasa 79
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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

Four Columns highlights 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. To create his minimalist sculptures, Mihich first casts acrylic in hard form, usually as large slabs with varying thicknesses. Then the artist cuts them into the desired dimensions. Often Mihich layers clear acrylic with transparent colored sheets. Laminations are made with a polymerized adhesive known as “Weld-On 40”. This “glue-like adhesive” must be quickly applied –sometimes in less than 20 minutes. Then the parts are “machined” and polished to a smooth finish. As Mihich explains: 

“Suspending transparent layers of color in open space suited me, though it created complex technical tasks. I resigned myself to time-consuming issues such as laminating the plastic layers, machining, and polishing, and was fulfilled by the resulting work. Initially, I had planned to dedicate three to four years to working with acrylic, but forty years later, I am still working in this medium.”

provenance

Medici II Gallery, Florida
Private Collection, Florida

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