Tag: Drawing

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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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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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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 […]

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Collages Drawings Paintings

Self portraits

grid of self portraits by Elena Grossman
Elena Grossman self portraits, 2000–2020

Twenty years of self portraits. The mes don’t look happy! In 2022 I will make one that shows I’m having fun. 

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Paintings

Ritual 4: Maintenance Phase

Watery drippy text overlapping in blue, black, yellow, and green, mostly illegible
Thank you, Maintenance Phase!

Over the last few years, between You’re Wrong About, Maintenance Phase, and You Are Good, I have learned that podcasting is a new art form—insofar as art is a crafted sensory experience that shows me my world in a new way and thereby fundamentally changes that world. Thank you Maintenance Phase, thank you Aubrey Gordon, […]

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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 Postcards

Future postcards

profile of two human heads

Four future postcards, new acrylic and vinyl over old acrylic

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Paintings

Unsound monolith #2

2021, acrylic on paper, 8.5 x 6.375 inches

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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 […]