Artists
Exhibition Dates
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Angela Grossmann, Untitled, 2010, oil on vintage carte de visite, 17.5 x 12.5 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Equinox Gallery.
Angela Grossmann, Untitled, n.d., oil on vintage carte de visite, 10.5 x 6.5 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Equinox Gallery.
Angela Grossmann, Untitled, c. 2010, oil on vintage carte de visite, 14.5 x 10 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Equinox Gallery.
Angela Grossmann, Untitled, n.d., oil on vintage carte de visite, 10.5 x 6.5 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Equinox Gallery.
Angela Grossmann, Untitled, 2003, oil on vintage carte de visite, 16 x 11 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Equinox Gallery.
Eadweard Muybridge, Plate 517 – Miscellaneous movements with a water jar, from the Human and Animal Locomotion series, 1887, collotype, 48.2 x 61 cm.
Courtesy of Equinox Gallery.
Eadweard Muybridge, Plate 198 – Curtseying, from the Human and Animal Locomotion series, 1887, collotype, 48.2 x 61 cm. Courtesy of Equinox Gallery.
Angela Grossmann, Untitled, 2010, oil on vintage carte de visite, 17.5 x 12.5 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Equinox Gallery.
Angela Grossmann, Untitled, n.d., oil on vintage carte de visite, 10.5 x 6.5 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Equinox Gallery.
Angela Grossmann, Untitled, c. 2010, oil on vintage carte de visite, 14.5 x 10 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Equinox Gallery.
Angela Grossmann, Untitled, n.d., oil on vintage carte de visite, 10.5 x 6.5 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Equinox Gallery.
Angela Grossmann, Untitled, 2003, oil on vintage carte de visite, 16 x 11 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Equinox Gallery.
Eadweard Muybridge, Plate 517 – Miscellaneous movements with a water jar, from the Human and Animal Locomotion series, 1887, collotype, 48.2 x 61 cm.
Courtesy of Equinox Gallery.
Eadweard Muybridge, Plate 198 – Curtseying, from the Human and Animal Locomotion series, 1887, collotype, 48.2 x 61 cm. Courtesy of Equinox Gallery.
Selected
Angela Grossmann and Eadweard Muybridge
Opening Reception
Thursday, April 16, 6 – 8 pm
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Equinox Gallery presents an exhibition of photo-based work by Vancouver-based artist Angela Grossmann, shown in conversation with photogravures by Eadweard Muybridge from his 1887 series Human and Animal Locomotion. Created more than a century apart, the works in this exhibition employ photography in experimental ways to examine the figure, movement, and human gesture, positioning the body as both subject and medium.
The exhibition highlights an ongoing facet of Grossmann’s artistic practice: her interventions on found cartes de visite, small photographic portraits which were popular in the 1800s. Translating to “visiting cards,” these portraits were early forms of self-representations, exchanged among members of mainly upper-class circles. Grossmann reinterprets these anonymous portraits, now described as the original selfies, through layered painting and collage, transforming them into psychologically charged studies of memory, femininity, and vulnerability.
Muybridge’s Human and Animal Locomotion series, captured through rows of cameras triggered in rapid succession, introduced a new scientific understanding of motion by depicting bodies in precise, sequential frames. His pioneering studies of human movement engage with the photograph as a dynamic site where time, narrative, and identity intersect. Together, Grossmann and Muybridge consider the photographic image as a fluid and multifaceted medium, giving close attention to how images can be reframed to explore the complexities of time and identity in photography.
