{"id":10308,"date":"2023-06-21T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10308"},"modified":"2023-06-20T07:57:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T11:57:08","slug":"chryssa-at-the-dia-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/21\/chryssa-at-the-dia-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Chryssa at the Dia Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When she arrived in New York from Athens, young Greek artist Chryssa was so taken by Times Square that she was inspired to create assemblages from neon and signage that capture the color and excitement of street life.\u00a0 Stocked with loans from MoMA, the Walker Art Center and other major museums, the artist\u2019s first show in the US since the 80s, now at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diaart.org\/exhibition\/exhibitions-projects\/chryssa-new-york-exhibition\">Dia Foundation<\/a> in Chelsea, makes a strong case for her importance to New York\u2019s downtown art scene in the 60s and 70s. Resembling a combination of street signs and printing plates for mass publication, Chryssa\u2019s Americanoom suggests or actually includes words (\u2018zoom,\u2019 \u2018run,\u2019 \u2018new,\u2019 and \u2018caf\u00e9\u2019) that give voice to a bustling city. (On view through July 23<sup>rd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2406px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/8e36a4e9-7130-c93b-1a88-1789e2fd43de.jpg\" width=\"2406\" height=\"1967\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chryssa, Americanoom, aluminum, steel, stainless steel and neon, 1963.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When she arrived in New York from Athens, young Greek artist Chryssa was so taken by Times Square that she was inspired to create assemblages from neon and signage that capture the color and excitement of street life.\u00a0 Stocked with loans from MoMA, the Walker Art Center and other major museums, the artist\u2019s first show &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/21\/chryssa-at-the-dia-foundation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chryssa at the Dia Foundation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[10406,145,10410,10405,10409,2666,2940,10408,1080,10407],"class_list":["post-10308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-americanoom","tag-chelsea-galleries","tag-chelsea-museum","tag-chryssa","tag-dia-foundation","tag-neon","tag-pop-art","tag-signage","tag-street-art","tag-times-square"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2Gg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10309,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10308\/revisions\/10309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}