Diane Farris Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of a new series of mixed media paintings by Angela Grossmann .

"If the faces in Angela Grossmann's previous work appeared to avoid the viewers gaze - either because they were in profile, or because they were those of the marginalized whose best attempt in the face of scrutiny was to look out with apprehension - this is certainly not so in her most recent work. Here they look back.

The figures, mostly of young women, that make up the exhibition fittingly entitled Looking Back, do so unabashedly, and with a confidence not often encountered in contemporary renditions of the female form, especially where the figures are unclothed.

Grossmann, too, looks back, and looks afresh at the female body as she pushes to uncover an invigorated female sexuality, inviting us to do likewise". From the essay "Looking Back", by Sharon Fuller.

Angela Grossmann was introduced to the Canadian art world in 1985 as one of the "Young Romantics", a group of artists in their early twenties that were part of the most vigorous new movement to emerge in Vancouver. Grossmann now lives in Vancouver after spending several years in Paris, Amsterdam, and Montreal where she scavenged for historical materials, many which she now uses in these new works.

Recent exhibitions include: Correction(s), 1999/2000, a solo exhibition at the Kamloops Art Gallery, (catalogue); *Crime and Punishment, 1999/2000 a traveling group exhibition with Canadian artists Louise Noguchi, Sheila Ayearst, Angela Grossmann and British crime-scene photographer Jonathan Eeles), Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ont., Gallery 44, Toronto, ON and Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK.