Angela Grossmann was introduced to the Canadian art world  in 1985 as one of the “Young Romantics”, a group of artists in their early 20s 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 of which she now uses in her new works.   With serious support from   Canada Council  behind her, Grossmann has continued to pursue a serious career in both art education and as a well exhibited painter.

Grossmann integrates into her paintings found materials that construct personal narratives, as well as manifest broader institutional restraints.  The found materials - both text and images - do not serve to merely document events or memories, but make a formal contribution to figure/ground elements in the work.  For example, the edge of an envelope becomes the line of a shoulder; a scrap of paper delineates the space between the thighs.  References to the body hold a primary position within all of Grossmann’s work.  As the artist writes:  'I take my cues from my materials. …I am not just painting on photos or other found materials…the combination is very considered and exact.'"

My Vocation is a new body of work encompassing Grossmann’s various subjects and themes: criminals, nurses, orphans and themes of the body and figure, body as political and sexual.  The work consists of new paintings on collaged surfaces using actual letters and postage stamps spanning the 20th century, together with new drawings on mylar.