Acrylic - Vasa Mihich

• Vasa Mihich - VasaStudios.com - Vasa is an academically trained painter and a senior Professor of Design at the University of California, Los Angeles. Born in Yugoslavia, Vasa has lived in Los Angeles since his arrival in the United States in 1960. His studio, designed to accommodate the technology required for his work, is located in the heart of Los Angeles. Here he creates and makes all of his art.  An innovative sculptor, Vasa is best known for his luminous prism sculptures. For more than thirty years, his work has continuously evolved and changed as he has explored the absorption and reflection of pure light. Based on simple Euclidean shapes - the triangle, square, circle and rectangle, - his laminated acrylic forms are composed of layered filters of colored planes that vary according to the source and placement of ambient light.  About Vasa
  
  
• Vasa’s sculptures are included in the permanent collections of many museums and corporations in the United States, Europe and Asia, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, California; Wilhelm Lehmbruek Museum, Duisber, Germany; Musees Royaux des Beaux- Arts de Belgique, Art Moderne, Brussels, Belgium; Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii; Milwaukee Art Center, Bradley Collection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California; Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California; and San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
  
  
• A senior Professor of Design at the University of California, Los Angeles, Vasa is an innovative, internationally known sculptor whose creative work explores the three dimensional interactions of light and color. With an advanced understanding of optical complexities, Vasa has become, in the words of Henry Seldis, former art critic of The Los Angeles Times, "the most sensuous and sensational colorist of the southern California artists working in plastic."  Born in Yugoslavia in 1933, Vasa Mihich, an academically trained painter, became a member of the faculty at the University of Belgrade in 1956. During a visit to Paris that same year, Vasa became aware of the growing importance of American art, and four years later he immigrated to the United States.
  
  
• Vasa's Studio - Laminated Acrylic Sculptures  (www.tsco.com/vasa) 
  
  
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• UCLA - Design Media Arts (www.design.ucla.edu) - Vasa Mihich Academy of Applied Arts, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Artist and Designer. Selected Public Collections: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Art Moderne, Brussels; San Diego Museum of Art; Philips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Wilhelm Lehmbrech Museum, Duisberg, Germany; UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles. Corporate Collections: World Trade Center, New York; United Technologies, Connecticut; Toyota Auto Industries, Japan; Olivetti, Italy.  vasa@ucla.edu
  
  
• Design Media Arts (design.arts.ucla.edu) - faculty list - Vasa Mihich, Professor - Professor. Vasa teaches visual fundamental design and graduate tutorial courses. He has taught at Belgrade University School of Architecture and University of Southern California School of Architecture. His work is exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan and is included in private collections locally, nationally, and internationally. Selected public collections that include Vasa's work are Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; MusŽes Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Art Moderne, Brussels; Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles; Oakland Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Center, Bradley Collection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; San Diego Museum of Art; Philips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Denver Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Wilhelm Lehmbrech Museum, Duisberg, Germany; UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles. Among corporate collections including his work are World Trade Center, New York; United Technologies, Hartford, Connecticut; Toyota Auto Industries, Nagoya, Japan; Olivetti, Ivrea, Italy. Diploma, Academy of Applied Arts, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
  
  
• Brunnier Art Museum Publications - VASA: Acrylic Sculpture. 1980. Catalogue of the one-man exhibition. Essay by Robert Hoiston. Critics remarks (National) and exhibition history. 4 color figures. 11pp
  
  
• The Exploratorium Museum Store - Vasa Cubes - Acrylic Sculpture Watch these fascinating sculptures absorb and reflect light; the vivid play of subtle hues makes them appear continuously alive. They were created by a painter named Vasa, who developed techniques for working with cast, laminated acrylic forms based on simple Euclidean shapes.  Octagonal Vasa Cube
  
  
• Los Angeles Modern Auctions - Prices Realized - Vasa.  Sculpture
  
  
• A Conversation with Chancellor Carnesale - In an office filled with UCLA mementos, there was a new centerpiece that had him beaming proudly: a large, laminated acrylic sphere by internationally known sculptor and UCLA Professor of Design Mihich Vasa. After three years at UCLA's helm, Chancellor Carnesale is very much at home in Murphy Hall.
  
  
• Evening Events - Vladimir Sokolov Gallery, 1540 S. Coast Highway 949 494-3633, Mixed media paintings by Vladimir Sokolov; acrylic paintings by Alex Sokolov and acrylic sculptures by VASA. 5 (Bus Stop)
  
  
• Brody, Inc The Medium is the Memory The office/thinktank of Brody Inc. is located in Century City, Los Angeles. An austere and minimalistic space, designed by the architect Juerg Lang and the artist Vasa Mihich, offers the openess towards creation and new developments—the Internet is everywhere, yet we believe, that great things need simple, inspiring places to happen.
  
  
• Slide Collection - 21st Century Artists N-Z VASA, Velizar Mihich 1933- YUGOSLAVIA
  
  

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