Author: Elena Grossman

Elena Grossman is an artist and educator practicing visual art, graphic design, and programming for exhibition spaces, print, and screen media. Learn more about Elena

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Needles

Comfort Consort (w.i.p.)

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Drawings

Dürer Prequel

Sharpie self portrait modeled on Melencolia I

Recently visited Mom and unearthed my first real art project from a course with Pier Consagra around 1995. Pretty much still the same except I miss Sari and David’s beloved cat Sweetie. And I’ve had to replace the boots a couple of times. I’m pretty sure that course started me going to the art students league and then everything else. […]

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Needles

Ritual Repair

Close up photo showing the back of a vinyl banner that's been mended with embroidery and now has crocheted fastener instead of a grommet
Embroidery on the back and a washer attached with crocheted thread

Repairing the lost grommets from the Gratitude poser with needle and thread.

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Merch

Artisanal swag for sale

Pride buttons on a wooden surface
Get your swag here

Celebrate pride with small and large handmade buttons in gorgeous colors and patterns.

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Posters

Bodily Autonomy

Looping interconnected teal text reads ‘Bodily Autonomy’ against a yellow background

No legislature may make a law that is overly burdensome or restrictive of fundamental rights.

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Letterforms

Ritual 13: Resolve

"resolve" written in geometric letters on a circle grid background
Resolve: working out my next banner.

My Ritual Open Call work began as calligraphic thank-you notes to my forebears and eventually became “gratitude,” my first installation with @ritual_open. Now that show is up in Oxon Run Park, and it’s time to think about the next location. I went from Gratitude to Rage—and now it’s Resolve. As in: I will keep finding ways […]

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Posters

Ritual Open Installation

Four artworks hanging from a chain-link fence in Oxon Run Park, Washington, DC
On a gray day in July we installed 7 banners, each 4 to 5 feet square. This image from left to right: artwork by Daria Dorosh, Abigail Simon, Yvonne Shortt, and Elena Grossman.

Last week Lisa Brown, Adrian, Rome Brown, and I installed the first location for the Ritual exhibition! It features my delightful collaborators, @healherphotography, @yvonne_shortt, @threestoryranch, @galaxina500, @amirahb_art, @art.of_e, and @daria_dorosh. Photos by me and Adrian Cooke.

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Letterforms Paintings

Ritual 12a: Amendment

“rage” spelled out in geometric lettering on a watercolor background
Emotional response to the latest phase of our eroding democracy

By the time I got to post the final banner to Instagram, the damn supreme court had followed through on its intention to revoke bodily autonomy from people who can get pregnant. So maybe this is the next banner.

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Drawings Letterforms

Ritual 12: Banner Planner

The word gratitude, broken down into syllables grat- it- ude in orange-yellow on a blue-green-purple background
First Rituals banner “Gratitude”

My twelfth and final banner post, long delayed. It’s been a rough couple of weeks. Work stress, car travel (always gets me), plus new medication gave me jitters and shakes for days. But a couple of weeks ago I finalized my first banner for the actual show, which begins in DC at Oxon Run Park […]

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Paintings

Ritual 11: Artemisia Gentileschi

watery calligraphy reads "thank you" (illegible) "artemisia gentileschi" in green, blue, purple, and black
Thank you/Artemisia Gentileschi/WIP

With all the patriarchy, threats to bodily autonomy, and mass murder this week, I am thinking of Artemisia Gentileschi: her paintings, her trauma, her testimony, her world. And our world, 400 years later. Despair, yes, but also gratitude.  Thank you, Artemisia Gentileschi.  Please see paintings and learn about this artist whose work has always been seen […]