Concealer / Revealer

Tag: Design

Needles

Ritual Repair

Post author By Elena Grossman
Post date August 16, 2023

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.

Tags Art, Design, Drawing, Embroidery, Fiber, Gratitude, Lettering, WIP

Merch

Artisanal swag for sale

Post author By Elena Grossman
Post date June 22, 2023

Pride buttons on a wooden surface — Get your swag here

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

Tags Design, Drawing, For Sale, Ink, Paper

Posters

Bodily Autonomy

Post author By Elena Grossman
Post date August 29, 2022

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

Tags Art, Design, For Sale, Rights

Letterforms

Ritual 13: Resolve

Post author By Elena Grossman
Post date July 27, 2022

"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 […]

Tags Design, Drawing, Gratitude, Lettering, WIP

Posters

Ritual Open Installation

Post author By Elena Grossman
Post date July 21, 2022

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.

Tags Art, Design, Installation, Lettering, Ritual

Letterforms Paintings

Ritual 12a: Amendment

Post author By Elena Grossman
Post date June 27, 2022

“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.

Tags Art, Design, Lettering, Painting

Drawings Letterforms

Ritual 12: Banner Planner

Post author By Elena Grossman
Post date June 24, 2022

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 […]

Tags Design, Digital Drawing, Gratitude, Painting, Paper, Watercolor

Paintings

Ritual 7: Howard Hodgkin

Post author By Elena Grossman
Post date May 1, 2022

swirly puddly swishy letters in black, yellow, and blue — Thank you/Howard Hodgkin

My Ritual Artist Open Call project is an opportunity to express gratitude to the artists and women who inspire me. So far it exists as a bunch of multilayered calligraphy compositions, and eventually it will materialize as a square banner for my collaboration with @ritual_open. The idea was not to involve anyone I know personally and […]