An
exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Barbara Grossman will open the
academic year at Union College's Arts Atrium Gallery.
The show,
which opens on Friday, Sept. 12, and runs through Oct. 17, is sponsored by Union's Department of Visual Arts.
The
artist will give a public slide talk on Thursday, Oct. 16, from 3:30
to 4:30 p.m. in
Arts 215. A reception will follow.
The gallery is open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Grossman is a figurative painter whose
vivid depictions of interiors have appeared widely in publications including Art in America, the New York Times, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Linda Konheim Kramer, executive director of
the Nancy Graves Foundation, has said that in Grossman's work “…song is
implied through visual means: gestures expressed in line, harmonious color
relationships, and the movements of form and pattern. The chords of the music,
reflected in the basic structure of the composition, are ornamented with the
lively patterns of the singer's clothing, the kilim rug, and the small vases of
flowers and teacups.”
Grossman received her formal training at
Academie der Kunst, Munich,
Germany;
Cooper Union, and the High School of Music & Art, New
York City. She has been awarded
the Grumbacher Gold Medal by the National Academy of Design, an Ingram Merrill
Foundation Fellowship for painting, and a Fulbright Grant to Germany.
Her many solo exhibitions includes those at Hollins University, Roanoke, Va.;
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.; and the Bowery Gallery, New York City, of
which she was a founding member. Her work has been represented in numerous
group exhibitions including the National Academy of Design, N.Y.; the College
of William
& Mary; New York Studio School; University of Pennsylvania; Gross McCleaf
Gallery, Philadelphia; and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn.
For further information, phone (518) 388-6714.