MAD Wine + Design Series

As part of the Wine + Design series join us for an exclusive private reception and tour with Swiss born artist Françoise Grossen. Grossen’s first solo exhibition at Blum & Poe features works from 1967–1991 including Swan (1967), loaned from the Museum of Arts and Design. Grossen will join us to speak about her personal and innovative designs followed by a curatorial discussion with MAD‘s Marcia Docter Senior Curator, Ronald T. Labaco.

Light refreshments will be served.

About Françoise Grossen

Françoise Grossen (b. 1943 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland) lives and works in New York City. Emerging in the late 1960s alongside contemporaries such as Eva Hesse, Sheila Hicks, and Lenore Tawney, Grossen sought to relinquish the traditional tools and methods of textile and fiber art, instead utilizing a free-hand braiding and knotting technique allowing for greater freedom and spontaneity in her process. Works appear simultaneously weightless and weighted, both masculine and feminine, all the while reinforcing their objecthood. Having studied architecture and later textile design at Kunstgewerbeschule Basel and at UCLA with Bernard Kester in the 1960s, Grossen became keenly aware of her ability to bring fiber sculpture into unexpected and experimental realms (hanging from the ceiling, draped on the ground or over pedestals, floating in bodies of water). Her work is in international public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Smithsonian Institution, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC; and the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia.