Nancy Grossman was born in 1940 in New York City[2] to parents who worked in the garment industry.[3][4] She moved at the age of five to Oneonta, New York. There, she began helping her parents at work making darts, which are three-dimensional folds sewn into fabric to give shape; and gussets, which are materials sewn into fabric to strengthen a garment.[5] Her experience in sewing influenced her work as an artist. Grossman studied at Pratt Institute and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree under the tutelage of Richard Lindner, in 1962. Grossman’s paintings, collages, and sculpture come out of a distinctly individual understanding of the psychological reality of contemporary life.[6] She then traveled Europe after earning Pratt's Ida C. Haskell Award for Foreign Travel.[7] and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1965–66). The accolades have continued throughout her career and include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1984), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (1991), a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (1996–97), and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2001).[8]
When she began making art her work was largely collage and drawings. She was working in the 1960s, when Abstract Expression was popular, and she was torn between abstract art and her love for material exploration.[9] At 23, Grossman had her first solo exhibition at the Kasner gallery in New York City. Her artwork included collages, constructions, drawings, and paintings. In 1964 she moved to Eldridge Street in Chinatown and continued to work there. Her move afforded her more space, so she began assembling free standingpieces and wall assemblages of at least six feet by four feet.[7][9]
In 1972, Grossman signed the "We Have Had Abortions" campaign by Ms. magazine which called for an end to "archaic laws" limiting reproductive freedom, they encouraged women to share their stories and take action.[10]
Grossman relocated to Brooklyn in 1999 after being forced to leave her Chinatown studio which she had occupied for thirty-five years.[1] Her work also struck out in new directions with a group of sculptural assemblages that seem to echo the archaeology and violence involved in the upheaval of her move.[8]
Art
Grossman is probably most well known for her work with figures sculpted from soft wood and then covered in leather. Grossman first used wood, generally soft and "found," such as old telephone poles, and carefully sculpts heads and bodies. The very first head that she created incorporated the use of black leather,[12] epoxy, thread, wood, and metal.[13] The original head quickly evolved into an ongoing series of roughly 100 heads, which is still being created in her Brooklyn studio to this day.[14] The heads she sculpted early in her career were "blind" as the eyes were covered by leather; however, openings were always left for the noses. Grossman explains that she wanted to release some of the tension and let the figure breathe.[15] Her attention to detail is seen in her workmanship, with each stitch of leather sewn carefully. The sculpture Male Figure (1971), is one of her full-bodied forms. Grossman uses leather, straps, zippers, and string to create sculptures that appear bound and restrained.[16] She describes her work as autobiographical, and despite figures like Male Figure, which has male genitalia, she says her sculptures are self-portraits.[17]
Others have reviewed her work as seemingly sexual and reminiscent of sadism and masochism, which Grossman denies.[18] She says her work challenges the ideas of gender identity and gender fluidity.[19] Grossman says the sculptures refer to her "bondage in childhood," but others have said that her work may flirt with the potential of female artists who had not yet gained prominence in the 1960s.[13][19]Head from 1968, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is typical of the wood and leather sculptures of heads for which the artist is best known.
Recent work
Some of her later work, such as Black Lava Scape from her series Combustion Scapes (1994–95) are mixed media collages created from found objects. Another piece in the series Self-Contained Lavascape (1991) is a mixed media collage drawing. According to a review in the New York Times, these pieces were inspired by a helicopter flight over an active volcano in Hawaii.[13]
In 1995, Grossman sustained an injury to her hand which made working with sculpture very difficult. After an operation to rebuild part of her hand, she was left with limited mobility, which is what led her to go back to her work with collage and painting.[20]
Recently, her work has been shown in major museum exhibitions. In the summer of 2011, PS1-MoMA presented a solo exhibition of her sculptural heads, and in 2012, the Tang Museum at Skidmore College presented Nancy Grossman: Tough Life, a five-decade survey. Throughout her impressive career, Grossman has received a steady flow of accolades, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1984), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (1991), a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (1996–97), and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2001), and her work is represented in the permanent collections of museums worldwide.[21]
1962: Ida C. Haskell Award for Foreign Travel, Pratt Institute
1965-66: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1966: Inaugural Contemporary Achievement Award, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1970: One Hundred Women In Touch With Our Time, Harper’s Bazaar Magazine
1973: Juror, New York State Council on the Arts, sculpture applicants for CAPS Fellowships
1974: Commencement Speaker and Honored Guest, 99th Commencement Exercises, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1974: American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Institute of Arts and Letters Award
1974: Juror, American Academy in Rome, sculpture applicants for Prix de Rome Fellowships
1975: Elected to Membership, National Society of Literature and the Arts
1984: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture
1990: The Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Purchase Award, The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1991: Artist’s Fellowship in Sculpture, The New York Foundation for the Arts
1991-92: Nancy Grossman at Exit Art, The Hillwood Art Museum and the Sculpture Center selected one of the three best exhibitions in an art gallery of this season by The American Chapter of the International Art Critics Association
1992: Elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member (became a full Academician in 1994).
1995: Alumnae Achievement Award, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Nancy Grossman: loud whispers: four decades of assemblage, collage and sculpture, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2000, ISBN978-1-930416-07-9
Carol Kort, Liz Sonneborn (2002). A to Z of American women in the visual arts. Infobase Publishing. ISBN978-0-8160-4397-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
Ian Berry, ed., Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary [retrospective] (Saratoga Springs, New York: Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College with Prestel USA, 2013).
David J. Getsy, "Second Skins: The Unbound Genders of Nancy Grossman's Sculpture," in Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015), 147–207.
References
^"Selected Works - Nancy Grossman (B.1940) - Artists - Michael Rosenfeld Art".
^"Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art Base: Nancy Grossman". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
^Glueck, Grace. 2001. "Nancy Grossman: [Review]." New York Times, January 12, 2001, E. 50.
^Swartz, Anne. "The Erotics of Envelopment Figuration in Nancy Grossman's Art," N. Paradoxa: 2007. Accessed 3/9/13. https://www.academia.edu/244278 Anne_Swartz_The_Erotics_of_Envelopment_Figuration_in_Nancy_Grossmans_Art and Getsy, David "Second Skins: The Unbound Genders of Nancy Grossman's Sculpture," Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015), 147-207.
^Glueck, Grace. 2001. "Nancy Grossman: [Review]." See discussion in Getsy, David "Second Skins: The Unbound Genders of Nancy Grossman's Sculpture," in Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (Yale 2015), esp. pp. 191-201.
^ abGetsy, David "Second Skins: The Unbound Genders of Nancy Grossman's Sculpture," in Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (Yale 2015) and Swartz, Anne. "The Erotics of Envelopment Figuration in Nancy Grossman's Art,"
^Lovelace, Carey. "Nancy Grossman" (PDF). WOMEN’S CAUCUS FOR ART HONOR AWARDS FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN THE VISUAL ARTS. Women's Caucus for Art. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
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garment industry 3 4 She moved at the age of five to Oneonta New York There she began helping her parents at work making darts which are three dimensional folds sewn into fabric to give shape and gussets which are materials sewn into fabric to strengthen a garment 5 Her experience in sewing influenced her work as an artist Grossman studied at Pratt Institute and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree under the tutelage of Richard Lindner in 1962 Grossman s paintings collages and sculpture come out of a distinctly individual understanding of the psychological reality of contemporary life 6 She then traveled Europe after earning Pratt s Ida C Haskell Award for Foreign Travel 7 and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 1965 66 The accolades have continued throughout her career and include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1984 a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship 1991 a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant 1996 97 and a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant 2001 8 When she began making art her work was largely collage and drawings She was working in the 1960s when Abstract Expression was popular and she was torn between abstract art and her love for material exploration 9 At 23 Grossman had her first solo exhibition at the Kasner gallery in New York City Her artwork included collages constructions drawings and paintings In 1964 she moved to Eldridge Street in Chinatown and continued to work there Her move afforded her more space so she began assembling free standingpieces and wall assemblages of at least six feet by four feet 7 9 In 1972 Grossman signed the We Have Had Abortions campaign by Ms magazine which called for an end to archaic laws limiting reproductive freedom they encouraged women to share their stories and take action 10 Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson 11 Grossman relocated to Brooklyn in 1999 after being forced to leave her Chinatown studio which she had occupied for thirty five years 1 Her work also struck out in new directions with a group of sculptural assemblages that seem to echo the archaeology and violence involved in the upheaval of her move 8 Art EditGrossman is probably most well known for her work with figures sculpted from soft wood and then covered in leather Grossman first used wood generally soft and found such as old telephone poles and carefully sculpts heads and bodies The very first head that she created incorporated the use of black leather 12 epoxy thread wood and metal 13 The original head quickly evolved into an ongoing series of roughly 100 heads which is still being created in her Brooklyn studio to this day 14 The heads she sculpted early in her career were blind as the eyes were covered by leather however openings were always left for the noses Grossman explains that she wanted to release some of the tension and let the figure breathe 15 Her attention to detail is seen in her workmanship with each stitch of leather sewn carefully The sculpture Male Figure 1971 is one of her full bodied forms Grossman uses leather straps zippers and string to create sculptures that appear bound and restrained 16 She describes her work as autobiographical and despite figures like Male Figure which has male genitalia she says her sculptures are self portraits 17 Others have reviewed her work as seemingly sexual and reminiscent of sadism and masochism which Grossman denies 18 She says her work challenges the ideas of gender identity and gender fluidity 19 Grossman says the sculptures refer to her bondage in childhood but others have said that her work may flirt with the potential of female artists who had not yet gained prominence in the 1960s 13 19 Head from 1968 in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is typical of the wood and leather sculptures of heads for which the artist is best known Recent work EditSome of her later work such as Black Lava Scape from her series Combustion Scapes 1994 95 are mixed media collages created from found objects Another piece in the series Self Contained Lavascape 1991 is a mixed media collage drawing According to a review in the New York Times these pieces were inspired by a helicopter flight over an active volcano in Hawaii 13 In 1995 Grossman sustained an injury to her hand which made working with sculpture very difficult After an operation to rebuild part of her hand she was left with limited mobility which is what led her to go back to her work with collage and painting 20 Recently her work has been shown in major museum exhibitions In the summer of 2011 PS1 MoMA presented a solo exhibition of her sculptural heads and in 2012 the Tang Museum at Skidmore College presented Nancy Grossman Tough Life a five decade survey Throughout her impressive career Grossman has received a steady flow of accolades including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1984 a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship 1991 a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant 1996 97 and a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant 2001 and her work is represented in the permanent collections of museums worldwide 21 Censorship EditIn 2009 the U S Postal Service censored her postcard for her etchings of a book by Adrienne Rich 22 23 Exhibitions Edit1990 Nancy Grossman A Retrospective Hillwood Art Museum Brookville NY 1995 Nancy Grossman Opus Volcanus Hooks Epstein Galleries 24 2000 Nancy Grossman Fire Fields The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center 2001 Nancy Grossman Loud Whispers Four Decades of Assemblage Collages and Sculpture Michael Rosenfeld Gallery New York 25 2007 Nancy Grossman Drawings Michael Rosenfeld Gallery New York NY 2011 Nancy Grossman Combustion Scapes Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 2011 Nancy Grossman Heads MoMA PS 1 New York City 26 27 2012 Nancy Grossman Frances Young Tang Museum 28 February 28 2014 August 16 2014 Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection https americanart si edu exhibitions robyAwards Edit1962 Ida C Haskell Award for Foreign Travel Pratt Institute 1965 66 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 1966 Inaugural Contemporary Achievement Award Pratt Institute Brooklyn NY 1970 One Hundred Women In Touch With Our Time Harper s Bazaar Magazine 1973 Juror New York State Council on the Arts sculpture applicants for CAPS Fellowships 1974 Commencement Speaker and Honored Guest 99th Commencement Exercises Massachusetts College of Art Boston MA 1974 American Academy of Arts and Letters National Institute of Arts and Letters Award 1974 Juror American Academy in Rome sculpture applicants for Prix de Rome Fellowships 1975 Elected to Membership National Society of Literature and the Arts 1984 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture 1990 The Hassam Speicher Betts and Symons Purchase Award The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters 1991 Artist s Fellowship in Sculpture The New York Foundation for the Arts 1991 92 Nancy Grossman at Exit Art The Hillwood Art Museum and the Sculpture Center selected one of the three best exhibitions in an art gallery of this season by The American Chapter of the International Art Critics Association 1992 Elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member became a full Academician in 1994 1995 Alumnae Achievement Award Pratt Institute Brooklyn NY 1996 97 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant 2001 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant 2008 Women s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award 29 Bibliography EditNancy Grossman loud whispers four decades of assemblage collage and sculpture Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 2000 ISBN 978 1 930416 07 9 Carol Kort Liz Sonneborn 2002 A to Z of American women in the visual arts Infobase Publishing ISBN 978 0 8160 4397 2 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint uses authors parameter link Ian Berry ed Nancy Grossman Tough Life Diary retrospective Saratoga Springs New York Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College with Prestel USA 2013 David J Getsy Second Skins The Unbound Genders of Nancy Grossman s Sculpture in Abstract Bodies Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender New Haven and London Yale University Press 2015 147 207 References Edit Selected Works Nancy Grossman B 1940 Artists Michael Rosenfeld Art Elizabeth A Sackler Center for Feminist Art Feminist Art Base Nancy Grossman Brooklyn Museum Retrieved 13 January 2014 Elizabeth A Sackler Center for Feminist Art Feminist Art Base Nancy Grossman Brooklyn Museum accessed 3 9 13 http www brooklynmuseum org eascfa feminist art base gallery nancygrossman php ohnson Ken 2011 Blind Ambition of Leather Clad Heads New York Times July 22 C 23 Nancy Grossman Tough Life Diary accessed 3 9 13 http tang skidmore edu index php posts view 397 Nancy Grossman Smithsonian American Art Museum a b Elizabeth A Sackler Center for Feminist Art Feminist Art Base Nancy Grossman a b Brooklyn Museum Nancy Grossman a b Nancy Grossman Tough Life Diary We Have Had Abortions PDF Some Living American Women Artists Last Supper Smithsonian American Art Museum Retrieved 21 January 2022 Macias Ernesto 2018 12 26 Nancy Grossman Tells Yvonne Rainer About Her 50 Years of Radical Art Interview Magazine Retrieved 2022 10 10 a b c Johnson Ken 2011 Blind Ambition of Leather Clad Heads Macias Ernesto 2018 12 26 Nancy Grossman Tells Yvonne Rainer About Her 50 Years of Radical Art Interview Magazine Retrieved 2022 10 10 Bjornland Karen 2012 Nancy Grossman exhibit tells tale about intriguing heads http www dailygazette com news 2012 may 03 0503 grossman Glueck Grace 2001 Nancy Grossman Review New York Times January 12 2001 E 50 Swartz Anne The Erotics of Envelopment Figuration in Nancy Grossman s Art N Paradoxa 2007 Accessed 3 9 13 https www academia edu 244278 Anne Swartz The Erotics of Envelopment Figuration in Nancy Grossmans Art and Getsy David Second Skins The Unbound Genders of Nancy Grossman s Sculpture Abstract Bodies Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender New Haven and London Yale University Press 2015 147 207 Glueck Grace 2001 Nancy Grossman Review See discussion in Getsy David Second Skins The Unbound Genders of Nancy Grossman s Sculpture in Abstract Bodies Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender Yale 2015 esp pp 191 201 a b Getsy David Second Skins The Unbound Genders of Nancy Grossman s Sculpture in Abstract Bodies Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender Yale 2015 and Swartz Anne The Erotics of Envelopment Figuration in Nancy Grossman s Art Morgan Robert C Nancy Grossman Opus Volcanus Sculpture Magazine 1998 accessed 3 9 13 http www sculpture org documents scmag98 grossm sm gross shtml Selected Works Nancy Grossman B 1940 Artists Michael Rosenfeld Art Letters Censored by Adrienne Rich with Nancy Grossman New York NY www americantowns com Retrieved 2016 03 18 Letters censored shredded returned to sender or judged unfit to send PDF Pied Oxen Printers Retrieved March 18 2016 http www sculpture org documents scmag98 grossm sm gross shtml Glueck Grace 12 January 2001 ART IN REVIEW Nancy Grossman The New York Times MoMA PS1 Exhibitions Nancy Grossman Heads ps1 org Archived from the original on 2011 03 24 Datebook Nancy Grossman Tough Life Diary Tang Museum Tang Museum Retrieved 2016 03 19 Lovelace Carey Nancy Grossman PDF WOMEN S CAUCUS FOR ART HONOR AWARDS FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN THE VISUAL ARTS Women s Caucus for Art Retrieved 9 January 2014 External links EditWorks by Nancy Grossman at Smithsonian Archives of American Art Nancy Grossman Clara database National Museum of Women in the Arts Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nancy Grossman amp oldid 1120490016, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
