Designer: Vasa Velizar Mihich (b. 1933) 

Item: Vasa Beveled Triangle sculpture

Manufactured by: Vasa Velizar Mihich

Country of origin: United States

Year made: 1994

Materials: Acrylic

Dimensions: 8” x 6” x 2 ½” 

Description:  Here is a larger sized table top sculpture in the triangle format by Vasa Velizr Mihich (Vasa).   Vasa is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California.   He 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 is best known for making laminated acrylic sculptures that reflect and refract light. This example is signed Vasa and dated 1994.  

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