TitleGunhead
Artist
Nancy Grossman
(American, b. 1940)
Date1991
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 16 × 18 × 9 in.
Edition3/8
SignedSigned on back: "(c) Nancy Grossman 1991 3/8 TX"
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, September 16, 1992
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1992.48
Label TextGrossman works in a variety of media and genres. She has been active as a sculptor, painter and collagist, and is best known for her series of gunheads, which she has been creating since 1973. Generally these disquieting works are black in color, incorporate leather, and are embellished with snaps, buckles, zippers, and braces, while having an opening for the nose. The Academy’s sculpture features a head with a gun strapped to the mouth which is meant to suggest the potential violence of words. Grossman has remarked: “My work is the only diary of my life. It is the physical revelation of my inner life and my intellectual concerns of the moment. It is magical in its imagining the non-verbal, and in its conjuring the non-visible into existence. I can make you see what I feel – what is real to me.”
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