Emilio Grossi – “Retrospect” – Art Exhibit & Sale

Emilio Grossi

1926 – 2014

After earning a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. from Yale University, he taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art where he founded the Department of Photography. Returning to New York, he was employed as a graphic designer with the firm of I.M.Pei & Associates as well as being a Visiting Critic at the University of Pennsylvania and an Adjunct Professor at The Cooper Union. 

Some of his design assignments included clients such as General Electric, Sperry Rand, TWA and Standard Brands. He was chosen to design a post card for the U.S. Postal Service commemorating 150 years of the U.S. Census. He became Art Director for Metromedia Television and subsequently Senior Art Director for Fox Television New York.

• Grossi’s work in Photography and Painting can be characterized as minimalist and shows strong influence of his teachers Josef Albers, Herbert Matter, Paul Rand, and Norman Ives. 
• He specialized in black and white photography with a heavy emphasis on large format cameras. 
• He has attributed his dual disciplines, painting and photography, to the influence of Charles Sheeler mastering both in his remarkable career. 
• Grossi’s photography shows included one man shows at the Cleveland Institute of Art, The University of Texas, the Mansfield Ohio Museum, and the Providence Public Library.

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Website:  https://www.emiliogrossi-art.com/

For Sale Site:  https://www.ebay.com/str/emiliogrossiart?_trksid=p2334524.m570.l113337

Over a career that spanned six decades Grossi captured countless images, in studio and in the field.

Whereas his photographs are nuanced and sensitive to his subject matter, his paintings are handsome but rigidly controlled graphic exercises in geometry, often abstract, in flat, mainly primary colors, and in perspective.