Stephen Grossman

39 Church StreetPrimary Medium: Paint
Other media: Drawing, Installation


39 Church Street
39 Church Steet 4B
New Haven, CT 06510
Phone: 203-980-4576

Neighborhood : New Haven: Downtown

Email: sgrossman01 (at) snet (dot) net

Website: http://www.sgrossman.net

Artist Statement
Things appear to be out of focus. My paintings address problems of perception, recollection and longing.

Alternatively, I enjoy the immediacy and directness of drawing.

Selected Works


five boys - 1967 - 2009 - gouache on paper - 40 x 60

five boys - 1967 detail - 2009 - gouache - 40" x 60"

Marilyn - at Bella's wedding - 2008 - oil on canvas - 36' X 36"

Marilyn High School Prom portrait - 2008 - oil - 36" x 36"

Marilyn High School Prom study - 2008 - ink on paper - 18" x 18"

Marilyn portrait study 1 - 2008 - ink on paper - 15" x 10"

Marilyn portrait study 2 - 2008 - ink on paper - 15" x 10"

Marilyn portarait study 4 - 2008 - graphite on paper - 15" x 10"

in the corn crib part 1 - 2006 - oil on panel - 42" x 28"

in the corn crib part 2 - 2006 - oil on panel - 42" x 28"

in the corn crib part 3 - 2006 - oil on panel - 42" x 28"


Artist Bio
EXHIBITIONS

2008 Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2008 Aldrich Undercover, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2008 Conncentric, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2007 Faculty Exhibition, Seton Gallery, UNH, West Haven, CT
2007 Environmental Visions: Beauty and Fragility, Haskins Laboratory
2007 101 Dresses, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2007 Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2006 Aldrich Undercover, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2006 On Sight, Weir Farm Trust Gallery, Wilton, CT
2006 RAW Party, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2004 Top Drawer, John Slade Ely Gallery, New Haven, CT
2004 Radius, Ridgefield, CT
2003 Vistas, Mt Ida College, Newton, MA
2002 “Insight/Onsite”, untitled(space), New Haven, CT
2001 “Small Works”, Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT
2000 untitled(space) opens The Flat File, New Haven, CT
1998 Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, W. Hartford, CT
1999 Canton Artists Guild, Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT
1997 Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1997 “Small Works”, Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobleskill, NY
1996 “First National”, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
1995 “The Connecticut Open”, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1994 “Small Works Invitational “, Artspace, New Haven, CT
1993 “Connecticut Art”, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT
1991 “Miniature Golf Design”, The Pump House Gallery, Hartford, CT
1990 “New Work, New Haven”, Artspace, New Haven, CT
1989 “Terra Cognita”, Thesis Studio 1985-1986, traveling exhibition to galleries in Frankfurt, Vienna, Copenhagen and Berlin.


COMPETITIONS/PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS AND PROPOSALS
2008 Nine Squares, New Haven, CT
2003 Memorial for the victims of 11 September, 2001
2002 National Foundation for the Arts Grant Recipient
2000 “Singer/Smoothie”
2000 “365 bales”
Public Art commission by Artspace for “the Lot”, New Haven, CT and reconceived in at a private residence in Bethany, CT
1999 “Collaboration with a Wall”
Installation in the Ninth Square district of New Haven, CT
2000 “The Caged Bird Sings”
Parkville Specifics project -sponsored by Real Art Ways
1990 New England Holocaust Memorial

PUBLICATIONS
2003 artsMedia, October issue, Taking the Outside In by Ellen Howards
2002 New Haven register, Insight/Onsite by Judy Birke
2000 New Haven Advocate, “Singer/Smoothie” by Hank Hoffman
2000 Art News, May issue, Loft Connections by Carly Berwick
2000 The New York Times, “365 bales”
2000 WTNH, “365 bales”
2000 New Haven Register, “365 bales”
1999 New Haven Advocate, City Wide Open Studios
1994 Channel 30, Public Access T.V.
1993 New York Times, “Connecticut Art”, April
1988 Terra Cognita, Thesis Studio 1985-1986, Ausstellung vom. 15. Marz bix April
Aedes Galerie for Architektur und Raum; Berlin, West Germany
1985 The Harvard Architectural Review

RELATED EXPERIENCE
2008-2002 Board of Trustees, Artspace, New Haven, CT, (President 2004-2007)
2006-2005 Visiting Artist, Weir Farm Trust, Wilton, CT
2003 Curator, Substructures, architecture under the skin, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2001 Curator, on the wall, untitled (space) gallery, New Haven, CT
2001 Curator / mentor, Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawings, untitled (space) gallery, New Haven, CT
2003-2000 Visual Arts Committee, untitled (space) gallery, New Haven, CT

EMPLOYMENT
2009 Adjunct Instructor, SCSU
2008-1998 Stephen Grossman Architect and Landscape Design
2008-2006 Adjunct Instructor, University of New Haven
2003-1989 Allan Dehar Associates, New Haven, CT
1988-1987 Lee Skolnick Architecture + Design, New York, NY
1986 New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

EDUCATION
1986 The Cooper Union, B. Arch., A. I. A. Certificate of Merit
1982 The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies
Intern; mentor - Peter Eisenman
1979 Tufts University
B.S.M.E., Dean's List, Magna Cum Laude

 


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