Angela Grossmann is one of Canada’s leading figurative painters. Her career spans four decades and explores beauty, memory and desire through the human figure. She combines painting, collage and found imagery to create figures that are glamorous, vulnerable and emotionally charged.
Grossmann’s confident brushwork, vivid colours and compelling figures are at once beautiful and sophisticated. Her paintings reward the immediate glance and years of looking – the necessary hallmarks of timeless works. Grossmann lives and works in Vancouver and is represented by the Equinox Gallery.
Bobbie Burgers is a Vancouver painter known for her exuberant use of colour, gesture and scale, and for her voluptuous, thickly applied paint. Inspired by flowers and the natural world, her work has evolved toward abstraction, where botanical forms dissolve into sweeping brushwork and layers of intense colour.
Burgers’ paintings change a room. They are seductive and embody growth, movement, abundance and transformation. They offer the rare combination of immediate visual pleasure and the ability to reveal something new every time you look at them. Burgers lives and works in Vancouver and is represented by the Equinox Gallery.
Painters are usually solitary creatures, which makes this collaborative canvas by Angela Grossmann and Bobbie Burgers especially unusual. Grossmann brings the figure and psychological tension; Burgers brings colour, nature and abstraction. Neither has complete control, and that is precisely the point. The result is part painting, part conversation and part collision – something neither artist could possibly have made alone.
Artist bios and art descriptions written by Douglas Coupland