Efi Chrysi

Efi Chrysi was born on 17 June 1961 in Athens, Greece. After graduating from Pierce College in 1979, she furthered her studies at the School of Social Workers at the Institute of Higher Social Work in Athens.
She then went on to study Interior Decoration and Design at the Inchbald School of Design in London.
Her father was a manufacturer of buildings. Between 1980-1985 she attended lessons in architectural design with Alekos Kalligas and Vasilis Lezos.
This experience imparted to her a love of geometry and lines. Visiting art exhibitions, she became attracted to Optical Art, a modern method of painting concerning the interaction between picture plane and illusion, between seeing and understanding.
In 1980 she began creating works by using the grid, following in the traces of optical art, with a manifest passion for the lines, color and light. She acquired a surprisingly steady hand, which allows her to use the brush like a pencil. Her art is always under her own control, within rules and limits. Such control explains her further love of symmetry. However, she invests the system she applies with great imagination of colours and shapes.
Over time her love of colours turned to facility in tonal relationships. The challenge f...

-Pierce College, the American College of Greece
Graduated in 1979

- School of Social Workers at the Institute of Higher Social Work in Athens (1979-1982)

- Interior Decoration and Design at the Inchbald School of Design, London, England (1983)

-architectural design with Alekos Kalligas and Vasilis Lezos (1985)