- Vasa Velizar MihichUntitled C-3866, 2020Acrylic painting on canvas over panel construction48 x 72 inchesSigned: C-3866 / 1•16•20 / Vasa (edge of canvas) and Vasa (verso)
Marked: C-3866 / 1.16.2020 / painting #331 N - Vasa Velizar MihichIrregular Shape #1, 2019Acrylic31 ¾ x 18 ¼ x 2 ¾ inchesSigned: Vasa 2019 at base
- Vasa Velizar MihichTower 1342, 2012Acrylic76 3/4 x 9 5/8 x 3 inches
Base: 5 1/2 x 20 x 15 inchesSigned: 1342 Vasa 2012 at base of column - Vasa Velizar MihichUntitled C.286, 2007Acrylic on canvas on plywood32 x 48 x 2 inchesSigned: C.286 10•5•07 / Vasa (verso) and 10•5•07 / Vasa on proper left edge
- Vasa Velizar MihichUntitled (#241N), 2004Acrylic on canvas on plywood24 x 32 x 1 7/8 inchesSigned: #241N / 7•20•04 / Vasa (verso)
- Vasa Velizar MihichTall Column #H 563, 1997Acrylic, cast and laminated74 1/2 x 4 x 4 inches
Base: 14 x 14 x 4 1/2 inchesSigned: #H 563 Vasa 1997 at base
Overview
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.”
Exhibitions
Feigen-Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, âAmerican Sculptures of the Sixtiesâ
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (solo)
Palm Springs Desert Museum (solo)
San Diego Museum of Art, California (solo)
Museums and Public Collections
Denver Art Museum
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
San Diego Museum of Art, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Wilhelm Lehmbrech Museum, Duisberg, Germany