Best known for her carved wooden heads wrapped in black leather affixed with zippers, glass eyes, enamel noses, spikes and straps, Nancy Grossman (b.1940) is accomplished in draftsmanship, assemblage, and relief sculpture as well as carvings. After growing up on a farm in upstate New York, Grossman went to Pratt, where Richard Lindner’s emphasis on the figure and in the integrity of his personal syntax became an influence. In the 1960s her head sculptures brought her notoriety and five solo exhibitions before the age of thirty. While the male figure has been a persistent motif in her work, her figures evoke themes varying from brutal aggressiveness to fluent femininity. Grossman’s attention to process and materials is a consistent emphasis. Her assemblages combine the precision of the drawn line with the resonances of found materials and the human bodies they touch and/or reference.