MEDIA RELEASE
NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL
OF DRAWING, PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
BARBARA GROSSMAN: A SURVEY opens at the New York Studio School Thursday, May 12; runs through June 26
Barbara Grossman Finale 2003-04 oil on linen, 48 x 42 inches
The New York Studio School is to present a survey of paintings and works on paper by Barbara Grossman from the mid-1970s to the present. The exhibition, which originated at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, completes its national tour in New York.
Grossman’s work is characterized by rich color and voluptuouis paint handling. Her favored subject is women in interiors, often engaged in music making. As Maureen Mullarkey detected in a 2004 review in the New York Sun, Grossman’s “languid women arranged amid ornamental motifs” echo Matisse’s early years in Nice.
According to Hearne Pardee, writing in the catalogue essay that accompanies the exhibition, “Grossman’s paintings convey a sense of everday reality, yet her formal and descriptive modalities have been fine-tuned to register and convey expressive impulses, much like musical performance, which she often invokes as an emblem of emotional resonance.”
Grossman, who was born in New York City, graduated from the Cooper Union in 1965 and went on to study at the Academie der Kunst, Munich. She has exhibited regularly with the Bowery Gallery, New York, since its inception in 1969, and has been the subject of exhibitions at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Hollins University, Roanoke, VA; and the Pennsylvania School of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA. Grossman has taught at many prestigious institutions including Yale University School of Art and Architecture, National Academy of Design, University of Pennsylvania, and the New York Studio School. Her work is in the collection of the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC; the Arkansas Art Center, AK; the State Museum of Pennsylvania; the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC; and many others.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with the essay by Hearne Pardee and by a website, www.nyss.org/grossman where all images in the exhibition may be viewed (from May 9). All images are available to the press at higher resolution upon request (dcohen@nyss.org.)
The gallery is open every day, including Sunday, from 10 am to 6 pm, with free admission.
New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, New York NY 10011, telephone 212 673 6466, www.nyss.org