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Susan Grossman's dramatic, large-scale charcoal drawings of New York streets and Long Island landscapes capture the beat and energy of the city in her predominately monochromatic urban landscapes. “Like a single frame snipped out of a film, her works arrest an instant in an unfolding story. The question of what may happen next is left up to the viewer’s imagination, so her pictures linger in the mind.” (Gerard Haggerty) Her kinetic, brooding images are of everyday street life, observed as if filtered through a film noir lens. The backlit figures are often caught in mid-stride as they weave through traffic, cutting across long early morning or late afternoon shadows.
Grossman’s Long Island landscapes are never static. Despite the rural subject matter, an implied narrative elicits the viewer to imagine the next, or perhaps the previous, frame. Spots of color in a black and white memory world act as visual markers, guiding the eye through the composition and creating a particular focused incidence in a field of imminent change.
SUSAN GROSSMAN
EDUCATION
1988 M.F.A. Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
1981 B.A. Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 New Drawings, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Matre Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006 New Drawings, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2004 New Drawings, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Matre Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2003 New Work, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Matre Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2001 TriBeCa, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Matre Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2000 The Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY (Curated by City of New York Parks and Recreation)
New Works, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Matre Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1999 DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Thompson Financial, New York, NY
1993 Duncan Gallery, Stetson University, FL
1992 Tatischeff Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Frank Bernarducci Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Wet, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2005 NYC, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Innocence Found, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Skies & Scapes, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Small Wonders, Matre Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2003 People, Places, Things, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
The Burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2002 TriBeCa Works on Paper Show, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Summer Show, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Artists, Matre Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1999 Roadshow, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Realism?, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
1994 New York, Wellesley Ross Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Frank Bernarducci)
1992 NYC Landscapes, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY, curated by Betty Levin
SPECIAL PROJECTS
“15 Minutes” (movie), New Line Cinema, 1999
COMMISSIONS/COLLECTIONS
ASCAP Headquarters, New York, NY
Baring Securities, New York, NY
Barclay’s Bank, New York, NY
Brooklyn College (Mural)
Chase Enterprises, Hartford, CT
John Wiley Publishers, Hoboken, NJ
Lincolnshire Management, New York, NY
The New York Historical Society, New York, NY
Richard, Layton and Finger P.A., Wilmington, DE
Roundabout Theater Company, New York, NY
The World Summit for Children, United Nations, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2005 Joseph Skrapits, “Susan Grossman,” Drawing Magazine, Fall
2004 Catherine Fox, “Atlanta Art-a-thon,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January
2003 The New Yorker, “The Burbs,” September
2001 George Rush and Joanna Molloy, “DFN Gallery, Susan Grossman,” Daily News, October
2001 Rona Nix, “The Creative Devil,” Piedmont Review, February
2000 Ken Johnson, “Summer Show,” New York Times June 30th
Ken Johnson, “Review, Susan Grossman,” New York Times, June
1999 Ken Johnson, “Road Show,” New York Times August 13th
1999 Ken Johnson, “Susan Grossman,” New York Times March 5th
1998 Traci Campbell, “So What is Realism? Is it a Camera’s Reality?,” The Villager January 28th
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