Convealer

Concealer / Revealer

Noun Verb Series 1

Post author By Elena Grossman
Post date January 1, 2021

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 […]

Tags Acrylic, For Sale

Paintings Postcards

Postal Propaganda

Post author By Elena Grossman
Post date December 23, 2020

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.

Tags Acrylic, Drawing, Ink, Mail, Paper, Watercolor

Collages

Dürer Self Portrait

Post author By Elena Grossman
Post date July 3, 2020

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

A self portrait that is a homage to Albrecht Dürer’s, painted in 1500 AD.

Tags Art, Paper

Paintings

Genie portrait

Post author By Elena Grossman
Post date February 28, 2020

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

The Dog

Tags Drawing, Paper, Watercolor

Paintings

Blue dog (Genie)

Post author By Elena Grossman
Post date January 1, 2020

Watery drawing of a cyan and purple dog with big ears against a green background

Tags Drawing, Ink, Paper, Watercolor

Video

Be Charming

Post author By Elena Grossman
Post date March 3, 2019

magenta-tinted smiling woman, looking down with distorted background — ‘Be Charming’ (2019)

‘Be Charming’ is a silent movie—completely silent!

Tags Art

Letterforms Paintings

Thank You Cards

Post author By Elena Grossman
Post date October 1, 2018

Squares, trapezoids, and other straight-sided shapes fit together like tetris. It’s a lot of right angles. The shapes are colored so you can just make out “Than/k you” if you squint, maybe. Letters are in bright warm pink and orange, and non-letters are cool blues, aqua, and green. — Thank You 1

Watercolors without curves.

Tags Drawing, Ink, Paper

Drawings Letterforms

Talmud Segment

Post author By Elena Grossman
Post date January 1, 2018

Calligraphy: "you are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. —the Talmud" — If ever there was a mantra to say

I only know the Talmud from being ecstatically proud of my cousin Saydie at her Bat Mitzvah, pretty much. I don’t know from religion. My friend Aviva, however, once tweeted this tiny excerpt, right when the world was in the middle of an astonishing need for civic engagement (which hasn’t ended). I think 2017 or […]