Mimi Gross (born 1940) is a

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born American artist.

Biography

Early life

Gross was born in New York City in 1940. She is the daughter of the sculptor

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. She grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan among the artist community of her parents, which included

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, Arnold Newman,

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and

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. From 1963-1976 she was married and collaborated with the artist

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Career

Mimi Gross's work spans from painting and drawing, films,

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, book design, costume and set design, indoor and out of door installations, diorama and sculpture. Gross is known for her work in oil crayon, chalk pastel, and oil paint. She began exhibiting in Provincetown, MA, an artist colony where she spent her summers with her family, in 1957, including a three-woman show at the Sun Gallery in 1958. She had a solo show at the

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in 1997, as well as several solo shows in various galleries there. She became well known for large 3-D constructions she made with her husband, including ''City of Chicago'' (1967–68), ''Discount Store'' (1970–71), ''Astronauts on the Moon'' (1972) and ''Ruckus Manhattan'' (1975–76). She has collaborated with

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, beginning with ''Foot Rules'' in 1978 and most recently ''tanks under trees'' (2008) with text by

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and ''Cassations'' (2012). Gross serves on the faculty of MICA, Maryland Institute College of Art, and was the 2010/11 McMillan/Stewart Chair in Painting.

References

Sources

* Kokoli, Alexandra M. ed., Feminism Reframed, Swartz, Anne, “The Feminist Art Project,” Newcastle, UK, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, 293-4. * Kirwin, Liza, More Than Words: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, Princeton, NJ, Princeton Architectural Press, 2005, x, 44-46, 188. * Nadel, D. (2017, January 27). Critical eye: Mimi Gross in her world. ''Art in America, 105''(2), p. 29-32. Retrieved from https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazines/critical-eye-mimi-gross-* "Mimi Gross," The New Yorker, Apr 17, 2000, 20. * Francine A. Koslow, "Mimi Gross at David Brown Gallery," Artforum, November 1988, 149. * Jeffrey Deitch, "Report from Times Square," Art in America, September 1980, 62.

External links

Mimi GrossSome of These Daze, Granary Books

New York Times
Mimi Gross papers at the Archives of American Art

Mimi Gross - Past Blog

Mimi Gross on PennSound
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