Nancy grossman collage
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Blunt, 1968
Leather, wood, porcelain and hardware
17 1/8 x 17 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches
Albert Ryder in New York, 1986
Collage on Masonite
14 x 12 inches
Collage Pastel #9, 1976
Collage and pastel on paper
26 x 19 1/2 inches
Sonta, 1971
Mixed media collage with oil graphite on paper
21 3/4 x 29 inches
Nancy Grossman, born in New York City, grew up on a working farm in Oneonta, New York. Life on a rural farm with parents in the garment manufacturing business shaped Grossman’s artistic vision and influenced her choice of materials. Collage assemblages of the 1960s and 1970s contain within their surfaces machinery parts, metal signs, wooden scraps and torn leather apparel; collages of the 1980s and 1990s are threaded with personal paper memorabilia and remnants from the Chinatown neighborhood, where her studio was located for thirty-five years. A student of Richard Lindner at Pratt Institute (1957-1962), Grossman received her BA in 1962. That same year, she traveled on an Ida C. Haskell Award for Foreign Travel to Europe, where she made her first colla
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Nancy Grossman
Artist
born New York City 1940
- Biography
Grossman completed a fine arts degree at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and subsequently received a Guggenheim fellowship for travel abroad. Although initially influenced by Richard Lindner and David Smith, Grossman's paintings, collages, and sculpture come out of a distinctly individual understanding of the psychological reality of contemporary life. Concerned with people as victims, Grossman depicted headless human forms tightly bound with shackles in a series of drawings, and in collages created figures whose contorted postures and featureless faces convey an unidentifiable sense of panic. In the late 1960s Grossman began her well-known series of carved wooden heads. Covered with leather, they often have closed zippers for mouths and are adorned with horns, buttons, or metal studs. In these sculptures Grossman symbolizes repression and the bestial side of human nature.
Virginia M. Mecklenburg Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the
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Nancy Grossman
Private Collection; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
Private Collection; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
Private Collection; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
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