Exhibition Dates: July 11 – 29, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 13, 2023, 5-8pm
The Artist will be present Saturdays 2-6pm
Bowery Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of the recent paintings and oil stick drawings by Barbara Grossman.
Grossman’s imagery is rich with luminous colors, shifting spaces and complex patterns that interweave with the women who inhabit interiors. Their activity seems to be one involved with music, singing and sometimes reading. In the current catalogue that accompanies the exhibition, the artist and writer John Goodrich says, “The artist’s spaces are rife with contradictions. Floors become backgrounds, distant forms feel proximate, while frontal, tipped-up elements direct us into the depths.”
For a long time she has been inventing, using clues from her deep interest in Indian and Middle Eastern imagery. Recent trips to Turkey and Morocco were transformative as she experienced her internal passions. “As Western art history is belatedly dropping the use of ‘decorative’ as an opposite of ‘substantive’ and gaining an appreciation of the significance possible through pattern, it is a good moment to reflect on the independent-minded achievement that Barbara Grossman’s paintings represent,” writes artist Christina Kee in the exhibition catalogue.
Barbara Grossman has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries throughout the United States and is in numerous public and private collections including the Arkansas Art Center, Hood Museum at Dartmouth, National Academy of Design and the State Museum of Pennsylvania. She has received many awards including the Henry Ward Ranger Fund Purchase, two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Grants, Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship Grant and a Fulbright Hayes Fellowship to Germany. This exhibition represents several years of intensive studio work. The show is surprising and totally engaging.
About Bowery Gallery: From its beginnings in 1969, Bowery Gallery – a cooperative founded by artists – has been a force for the expansion of art’s traditions in a venue unconstrained by commercial pressures.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am to 6pm. For more information contact the gallery at 646-230-6655 or info@bowerygallery.org.
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