Nancy Grossman - Collages, Constructions, Drawings, Sculptures

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   A comprehensive mid-career exhibition of multi-disciplinary artist Nancy Grossman. Best known for only one aspect of her work, leather covered sculptures of abstract heads, this exhibition for the first time revealed the depth of a career that spans 25 years, 1965-1990, and placed that work within a context of contemporary art history. As a woman artist in the early 1960s, she was one of the pioneers to use industrial materials to create collaged 3-dimensional mixed media sculptures. The formal diversity of Grossman's art is integrated in how they address fundamental concerns about the human condition threatened by the alienation of the machine. Grossman's art combines human forms in symbolic reference to the technology that enslaves us. Juxtaposing the environment of the 20th century, what she calls "materials of civilization" with primitive, instinctual, or animalistic human nature is a theme that pervades her work and is at the root of its dialectical nature.





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