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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Posters

Artspace gallery banners

For the Birds, Foreign/Domestic, and Mythical Nation banners for Artspace
Banners for three “untitled(space)” shows at Artspace in New Haven, Connecticut

Environmental graphics for three exhibitions.

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Books

The World As India

facing pages in first half use collage with knocked out letters spelling “The World As India” while facing pages in second half use filled-in letter negatives spelling “aidnI sA dlroW ehT”
The World As India book design: first half, center spread, and second half (index)

A map the size of the territory.

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Books

Harshless Typography

cover and interior spread in Cooper Black and Helvetica Rounded; see second quote in Excerpts below for full text
Harshless Typography: The Post-Barb Movement

No more words-that-look-like-weapons as weapons.

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Posters

The All-Cookie Diet

common cookie ingredient icons from “alkali“ to “yellow 6 lake”
The All-Cookie Diet (2014 revision)

Nutrition when ‘sandwich’ is in the name

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Magazines

Cabinet Magazine

Cabinet, Fall 2001 cover featuring lion sculpture detail
Cabinet Magazine, Fall 2001 cover

Cabinet Magazine, Fall 2001 (#4): designed in collaboration with Richard Massey, Hilites for Children, and Jessica Green.

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Posters

The Guggenheimlich Maneuver

first aid for the… Choking Victim: The GUGGENHEIMLICH MANEUVER
The Guggenheimlich Maneuver (2001)

What to look for in victims of overwhelming architecture

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Prints

July, July

etching printed on a spread from a calendar; image is a portrait of a Black man in profile with lines indicating shapes and forms
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Prints

Dry leaf

Dry leaf, drypoint etching on copper, printed on cotton paper, 2000
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Prints

Over 9′

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Drawings

Salt a pretzel, nostalgia

two human heads floating amongst overlapping/colliding swirls, bursts, and symbols
Untitled drawing, ink and watercolor on paper, 1998-or so.

From the archive, I’m guessing 1998: a doodle featuring some floating heads, the Steve Grossman classic amoeba I’ve been doodling since I was 8, and a carrot. Am I nostalgic now for the nineties or was there already nostalgia built into this? The eyelashes look like it was part of the original drawing. Either way […]