Grossman presented a slide talk at the Alice C. Sabatini Art Gallery in the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, Kansas on Saturday, January 13, 2024, from 2-3 p.m. My painting, Braided Kaw and Big Blue, an oil on canvas, was part of this exhibition exploring how artists interpret light and shadow in their work.
Grossman was included in a group exhibition at the Spencer Museum of Art entitled Reading the World that featured artists whose work responds to forces in the natural world. Fellow artists were Cannupa Hanska Luger, Lilly McElroy, Marie McInerney, and Erin Wiersma.
Grossman’s series of nineteen Floodplain Scrolls panels were included, which had debuted at Haw Contemporary earlier in 2023 in her solo show RIVERING. The wood panels are painted laser cuts of LiDAR images of the Kansas River floodplain, revealing centuries of channel changes and river evolution. The panels are 9 x 9 inch panels of laser-cut wood, painted with black and metallic acrylic.
The show ran from August 23, 2023, through January 7, 2024.
There was an in gallery discussion with curator Joey Orr and artists Grossman, Erin Wiersma, Lilly McElroy, and Marie McInerney on December 7, 5:30 – 6:30 pm.
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Grossman had a solo show featuring a variety of new oil landscapes that opened August 19, and ran through October 7, 2023. It included prairie paintings as well as aerial river paintings of the Kansas and Big Blue River at Manhattan, Kansas.
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The Sacred Red Rock Project artist workshops were held Sunday, July 23, 2023, in Lawrence’s Robinson Park, a pocket park near the Kansas River bridge downtown. There was a morning and an evening session, hosted by Sydney Pursel, with the Spencer Museum of Art, and muralist and community organizer, Dave Loewenstein, in conjunction with the Sacred Red Rock Project. Sunday was the last day anyone could be close to the rock before fencing was installed Monday in preparation for its move to the Kaw Nation’s Allegawaho Memorial Heritage Park near Council Grove, Kansas. Artist’s were invited to document the rock and setting and Grossman did a couple of watercolors and an oil sketch. She also shared maps of the Kansas river to show participants the original location of the rock before it was stolen in 1929.
To learn more, please visit:
https://sacredredrock.com/
Also see the Lawrence Journal World article by Chris Conde:
https://www2.ljworld.com/news/general-news/2023/jul/23/lawrence-artists-gather-to-create-works-inspired-by-kanza-prayer-rock-before-it-moves/
Grossman was featured alongside thirty fellow gallery artists in a wide-ranging exhibition marking the tenth anniversary of Haw/Contemporary in the Kansas City Stockyards District. The work included historic and new works by artists on the roster including Grossman’s “Wabaunsee Watershed,” below. Grossman has had six solo shows at Haw since it opened in 2013 and is pleased to be represented by one of the finest contemporary art galleries in the region.
DECADE opened Friday, July 14, 2023, and ran through Saturday, August 26, 2023.
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On June 22, 2023, Grossman presented her work for a Spencer Museum of Art Senior Session in the Lee Study Center. After a slide talk, visitors could go out into the newly renovated 4th Floor galleries and enjoy the work in person.
Thanks to Adina Duke, Associate Director for Public Engagement, for organizing the event and to Ryan Cole Waggoner for the wonderful photos.
The annual Symphony in the Flint Hills signature event was held in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, on June 10, 2023, and Grossman had a painting in the benefit auction along with a couple of images in the annual Field Journal.
Bidding was online but the work was also on view in the Symphony Gallery in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.
Kansas Public Radio (KPR) aired a commentary by Rex Buchanan about Grossman’s work in her exhibition RIVERING, at Haw Contemporary that closed March 8, 2023. Listen here.
Grossman’s exhibition, RIVERING, opened Friday, January 20, 2023 and ran through March 8, 2023. She gave an artist’s talk on Saturday, February 18, 2023, 2-3 p.m. This was Grossman’s 6th exhibition at Haw Contemporary and it spanned all three gallery spaces downstairs. It included a dozen oils, works in acrylic, and printmaking pieces.
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Grossman had several contributions to the 2022 Symphony in the Flint Hills signature event, which is held annually in June at various locations around the Flint Hills prairies of eastern Kansas. A day of activities and education designed to foster appreciation of the tallgrass ecosystem is capped off by an evening concert by the Kansas City Symphony.
Grossman donated two paintings to the benefit auction and had several paintings and an essay included in the Field Journal. Now in its 14th edition, the 2022 Field Journal was dedicated to a topic that everyone’s comfortable discussing: the weather.
The paintings are shown below: Ridgelines, 12 x 46 in., oil on canvas, and Gust Front Sketch, 12 x 9 in., oil on panel. The prairie art exhibit could be viewed in person at the Symphony Gallery at 331 Broadway, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, through June 14, 2022.
