top of page

Viewing Room

Angela Grossmann

Smaller Than Life

 

March 19 – April 30, 2022

 

Angela Grossmann has devoted much of her career to examining themes of displacement and social margins through the use of collaged and transferred discarded materials. In an early series titled Affaires d'Enfants (1987), she painted on the insides of suitcases abandoned by an agency in Paris that once sponsored summer camp holidays for orphans.  In 1991, she created (Sign)ifying the END of the (Second) 2nd World War using photographs of unknown European children found in second-hand shops.  Grossmann based her 1994 exhibition Scapegoats on mug shots taken of prisoners in the British Columbia Penitentiary during the 1940s. In a strange world hovering between fantasy and reality, she forced viewers to face the human side of criminals. Her 1999 exhibition, My Vocation, presented the human figure graphically sketched and enlarged. The images emerged through ephemeral layers of letters, photographs, addresses, envelopes, postage and cancellation marks.

Rhapsody in Blue_Oil on Myla_70x35_2022.jpg
Renaissance Gold_Oil on mylar_74.5x40_2022.jpg
Woman in Gold_Oil on Mylar_74x40_2022.jpg
Nyborg_oil on carte de viste_4x2.5_2022.jpg
Dressing_Oil on carte de viste_5.5x3.5_2019.jpg
Belle Epogue_oil on carte de viste_4x2.5_2022.jpg
Platinum_Oil and gold leaf on mylar_18.75x12.75_2021.jpg
Scroll down for artwork details and pricing
bottom of page