- Mimi Gross
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Mimi Gross (1940-) is a New York City born artist. She is the daughter of the sculptor Chaim Gross. From 1963-1976 she was married to the artist Red Grooms who was her collaborator on many projects. Her work spans from painting and drawing to happenings, films, mail art, book design, costume and set design, diorama and sculpture.
She began exhibiting in Provincetown, MA, an artist colony where she spent her summers with her family. She had a solo show at the Provincetown Art Association in 1957 followed by a solo show at the Sun Gallery in 1958 and a three-woman show at the Sun Gallery in 1963.
She became well known for large 3-D constructions she made with her husband Red Grooms, including City of Chicago (1967-68), Discount Store (1970-71), Astronauts on the Moon (1972) and Ruckus Manhattan (1975-76).
She has collaborated with the dancer Douglas Dunn[1] on more than 18 dances, designing sets and costumes, beginning with Foot Rules in 1978 and most recently tanks under trees (May 2008) with text by Anne Waldman.
References
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.
"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.
Judy Tully, Ruckus Manhattan, New York, Braziller, 1977.
Canaday, John, “Red Grooms and Mimi Gross,” New York Times, May 31, 1969, 19.
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Categories:- 1940 births
- Living people
- American artists
- American printmakers
- American painters
- Contemporary artists
- Artists from New York City
- People from Greenwich Village, New York
- Jewish American artists
- Bard College alumni
- Women painters
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