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Private Collection, Montreal

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Known for the provocative, edgy themes of sexuality and female politics, Angela Grossmann explores the transition of girls into women and the emotional and social trappings inherent in this stage of self-discovery. In Blue Blanket (2007), Grossmann literally and symbolically blurs the lines of her female figure and generates the angst of transformation through the subject’s gaze, which is emotionally charged with curiosity, confusion, vulnerability and disdain. The painted black-blue lines of the figure dissolve into the blanket which simultaneously acts as a symbol of security and the notion of that security falling away; the evolutionary point where childhood ends and adulthood begins.

In 1985, while still a student, Grossmann was named to a list of the decade’s most influential painters. She also showed with the Young Romantics at the Vancouver Art Gallery. She earned her M.F.A. at Concordia University in 1991 and taught at the University of Ottawa before returning to Vancouver in 1996 where she now teaches at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Grossmann’s works feature in several notable collections, among them the National Gallery of Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery.