winsor gallery

April 4 - May 6, 2012

ANGELA GROSSMANN

The Future is Female Girl Leaning Black Bra, Blue Background Two Flowers Black, White and Blue Wounded Bird Blue Gloves, Red Hair Tiny Girl with Cobalt Blue Hair Red Yellow and Blue Rose Madder and White Cool Grey Dress

April 4 - May 6, 2012, Winsor Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Angela Grossmann.

In her exhibition of new work entitled The Future is Female, Angela Grossmann investigates the female form and the ways in which girls and women are shaped by both deeply personal experiences and socially prescribed notions of female status, sexuality, femininity and conventional beauty.

The title of the exhibition is inspired by a button emblazoned with the caption “The Future is Female”, which Grossmann found at a local junk shop while a student at Emily Carr in the mid-‘80s. Like so many of the cast-offs—postcards and postage stamps, letters, books and particularly vintage photos—that would later become raw material for her collage paintings, the button appealed to Grossmann on multiple levels, as a brazen declaration, a portend of the future and an abandoned relic of second-wave feminism. While her subject matter often deals with themes of belonging and marginalization, such as orphans, girls and boys on the knife edge of puberty, convicted criminals and unsung nurses, these new works explore the female form through time, from the limbless, headless Greco-Roman sculptures to modern girls in mass-produced apparel.

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