Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present its first solo exhibition featuring the work of Nancy Grossman. Nancy Grossman: Loud Whispers includes thirty assemblages, collages and sculpture dating from the early 1960s to the present, offering an overview of the artist’s career. Internationally recognized for her diverse and provocative mixed-media work, Grossman has consistently explored the human condition and its physical environment. Whether collage, relief, assemblage or mixed-media sculpture, her work is foremost concerned with its own process. In the catalogue essay for this exhibition, Lowery Stokes Sims states: “While many collagists draw us into the romance of the object, Grossman’s work draws us into the raw violence of the discard, the discharge, the eruption of life and nature and the decay…[Grossman] was ‘led to collage’ by the potential for sensuousness and the idea that ‘objects are in the world – existing in life and getting away from it at the same time.’”

Nancy Grossman, born in New York City, grew up on a working farm in Oneonta, New York. Life on a rural farm with parents in the garment manufacturing business shaped Grossman’s artistic vision and influenced her choice of materials. Collage assemblages of the 1960s and 1970s contain within their surfaces machinery parts, metal signs, wooden scraps and torn leather