Designer: Vasa Velizar Mihich (b. 1933)

Item: Vasa Triangle Tower

Manufactured by: Vasa Velizar Mihich

Country of origin: United States

Year made: 2014

Materials: Acrylic plastic

Dimensions: 9” x 2 ½” x 2 ½”

Description: Vasa Velizar Mihich (born 1933), known as Vasa, 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.

This triangular tower has an oscillating quality with the stripes of colors infused within the clear block. This sculpture looks different from every angle and has a vibrant quality. Signed and dated as shown.

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: Excellent