When the #8 edition of Hobo Magazine said in April 2007 : “Vancouver-based painter Angela Grossmann has had an international reputation since the late 1980s, yet still remains somewhat obscure in her adopted home of Canada.
In fact, Grossmann is so much better known and appreciated in Europe that in a survey published by The Art Newspaper last year, British art students from eleven of the UK’s leading art schools included her on the list of 100 artists that had most inspired and influenced their work.”
Here’s a little sampler of her work that has inspired me. I included this section of art on my website because I was going to start taking photographs of the works that I do and putting them here, but I’m just too busy with Svengali music right now and then the shooting of some music videos for the songs, and the writing….ugh. The “art” will have to wait, but I never stop keeping my eye out for great influences such as Grossmann. Good on Hobo Magazine (only published bi-annually!) for bringing this to my attention, and now yours.
I was shocked! Grossmann kicks buttocks, but the funny thing is I didn’t find out who she was either until I moved to the UK. She was born in London in 1955, but it was in Vancouver where she made a name for herself in the summer 1985 as one of the eight (lamentably named) “Young Romantics” exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG…hold the jokes please. Ok go ahead). Curated by Scott Watson, the show is now notorious for helping launch the careers of some of Canada’s brightest art stars. Grossmann and three others included in the show – Graham Gillmore, Attila Richard Lukacs, and Derek Root – were all classmates attending the Emily Carr Institute who were working and exhibiting together under the moniker Futura Bold. (Also involved was the wayward “fifth Beatle” of the group, as he calls himself, novelist Douglas Coupland, who at that time was studying sculpture.)
Well I think it’s about time Canada starts getting to know some of the artistic talent living within its borders, and this woman is a good place to start. Canada in general definitely doesn’t pay enough attention to the arts in general and that is a shame and perhaps one of the reasons I now live in London (I dunno, that could be a crap reason). But yea, Angela Grossmann, whoop whoop!
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