Bathsheba Grossman (born 1966) is an American artist who creates

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s using computer-aided design and three-dimensional modeling, with metal printing technology to produce sculpture in bronze and stainless steel. Her bronze sculptures are primarily mathematical in nature, often depicting intricate patterns or mathematical oddities (for instance
a figure with only one side but three edges
. Her website also has crystals that have been laser etched with three-dimensional patterns, including models of nearby stars, the DNA macromolecule, and the

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. Grossman's works have featured in art galleries around the world, as well as ''

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'', and the television series ''

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'' and ''

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''. In July 2012, her work ''The Rygo'' was installed in the

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; at 2 meters high, as of the time of installation it is the largest 3D print in North America. She studied under sculptor

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as a mathematics undergraduate, and later with Robert Engman at the

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. Her brothers are the writers

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and

Lev Grossman Lev Grossman (born June 26, 1969) is an American novelist and journalist who wrote ''The Magicians Trilogy'': '' The Magicians'' (2009), ''The Magician King'' (2011), and ''The Magician's Land'' (2014). He was the book critic and lead technology ...

. She is the daughter of the poet Allen Grossman and the novelist Judith Grossman. Grossman's father was born

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and her mother was raised Anglican.

References

External links

Bathsheba.com

Profile and gallery in ''symmetry'' magazine
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