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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Paintings

Ritual 3: Jia Tollentino and Aaron Swartz

Close up photo of layered brush strokes in blue and yellow.
Thank you/Jia Tollentino and Aaron Swartz

First layer thanks Sia, Ani DiFranco, Fever Ray, and Gnucci; second layer Jia Tollentino; and final layer Aaron Swartz.  In the midst of my new gratitude practice, giant thanks to the spectacular women of @ritual_open. I am immensely honored to work with every one of them. 

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Paintings

Ritual 2: Gnucci and Sia

drippy inky blue-black writing on a yellow and orange background, running together and illegible (I’m guessing it’s women that fixed this)
Thank you/Sia, Fever Ray, Gnucci, and the ophthalmologist’s business office

Today I honored Sia, Fever Ray, Gnucci, and a local business

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Paintings

Ritual 1: Albers and Solnit

A chunk of gessoed gator board sits on my drafting table; paintbrushes and color tests are in the background
Thank you/Ilana Glaser, Ijeoma Oluo, Samin Nosrat, Roxane Gay, and Debbie Millman

The thanking begins

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Photographs

This Week in Magnolia Blossoms

In spring sunlight one audacious dancing flower throws its petals up in celebration of its own existence. A brick path and the back of a house are in the background.
A single celebratory magnolia blossom on a bright day

Our magnolia’s brief glory this spring

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Paintings Postcards

Future postcards

profile of two human heads

Four future postcards, new acrylic and vinyl over old acrylic

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Video

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 Postcards

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 […]