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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Be Charming 2021

A girl is raised to be charming. Magazines tell her how to look, feel, and behave, using clipped phrases that include: a ghastly weight; gloomy outlook; women; what causes sick nerves?; that body of yours; don’t be skinny; crash diet; which is your personalty? (sic); gloomy and pessimistic; be successful; bosom beauty; overactive emotions; nervous and mental breakdown; it is suicidal; make life worth living. She watches women trying to be beautiful, exhorting each other to be successful (attractive), experiencing frustration, and eventually losing their physical and emotional balance. After she learns that To Forget Yourself Is Charming, the girl is erased.
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Paintings

Six pieces of mail art

a drippy painting/collage incorporating a 1940s (?) magazine illustration of a girl in a red dress peering anxiously to her right with part of a US flag behind her
Front Row Pass

Two paintings turned into six postcards, each about 4 x 6 inches. Front Row Pass: A drippy painting/collage incorporating a 1940s (?) magazine illustration of a girl in a red dress peering anxiously to her right with part of a US flag behind her

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Paintings

Unsound monolith #2

2021, acrylic on paper, 8.5 x 6.375 inches

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Drawings

Pink monolith, unsound

impossible three dimensional geometric pink object floating in a white field
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Paintings

Noun Verb Series 2

A translucent yellow-green folding form floats in blue, moving indecisively to the right. Not in a hurry but still pretty awkward.
Proceed, 6 x 8 inches

For sale: Drawings from Noun Verb project. Pencil, acrylic, and vinyl on paper, $65 each, part of #artistsupportpledge. Please send email to elena@convealer.com to buy one. Second series, April 2021: Each piece has at least an eighth of an inch margin.  Blast, 5.5 x 7.5 in: A distorted cube floats in a cloudy grey green […]

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Paintings

Crystal Line Dialog(ue)

Two ten-sided objects float in a blue-marine field. They are imaginary. The walls are multi-layered, translucent, and orange, green, and blue.
A Crystal Line Dialog(ue), 2021

For sale: Crystal Line Dialog(ue), 2021, pencil, acrylic, and vinyl on 100% cotton bristol, 12 x 16 inches, $200, part of #artistsupportpledge. Please send email to elena@convealer.com to buy this painting. Two ten-sided objects float in a blue-marine field. They are imaginary. The walls are multi-layered, translucent, and orange, green, and blue. There may have […]

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Paintings

Noun Verb Series 1

Angular planes enclose a space like strips of paper folded to make a concave polygon with blues that fade into each other in a field that’s yellow but murky.
Noun Verb series: Worry

For sale: Drawings from Noun Verb project. Pencil, acrylic, and vinyl on paper, $50 each, part of #artistsupportpledge. Please send email to elena@convealer.com to buy one. First series, January 2021: Each piece is tightly cropped, 6 x 6 inches. 1. Draw and 2. Slide: red. orange, and pink planes of a mechanical hand reach down […]

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Paintings

Postal Propaganda

Six postcards, image side up, in two rows of three. They feature vertical stripes, a grid of color blocks, floating dots, and generally a lot of watery colors bleeding into each other. The colors are bright and translucent.
Six postcards

Unsubtle doodles adorn subtle (sub rosa?) election season pleas: think about healthcare! Project for Working America, unsigned, undated, mailed out, unavailable. Photos by Adrian Cooke.

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Collages

Dürer Self Portrait

Layered paper image depicting me with a blue/yellow face, wearing a hoodie.
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Paintings

Genie portrait

Blue and black dog, somewhat abstract, on a grey-white mat
Genie in graphite, crayon, and watercolor

The Dog