Designer: Vasa Velizar Mihich (b. 1933)

Item: Vasa Small Cylinder Sculpture

Manufactured by: Vasa Velizar Mihich

Country of origin: United States

Year made: 2001

Materials: Acrylic

Dimensions: 3 ½” x 2 ¼” in diameter

Description: Here is a small and harder to find cylinder work by Vasa Velizar Mihich. These cylinder works came in different heights and this is the shortest we have seen. It is signed and dated as shown.

Known as Vasa, he is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California. Mihich was born in Yugoslavia and moved to the United States in 1960. An academically trained painter he was also a professor at the University of California in its Department of Design and Media Arts. He taught theories of color to understand interdependence and interaction of color and form, color and quantity, color and placement, and after-image. He makes laminated acrylic sculptures that reflect and refract light.

Vasa’s work has been exhibited in art galleries in the United States, Japan, and Italy and in the permanent collections of important public museums such as the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Denver Art Museum, the Phillips Collection, the Hammer Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art and many others.

Condition: Very good. Some very light surface marks and the bottom has shelf wear as shown. Presents extremely well.