Riley Grossman is a multidisciplinary artist based in Queens, NY.

Riley’s work centers around exploring form, both of the body and object. With a background in fashion design and specialization in knitwear, their work is a continued effort to better understand the way fiber interacts with the subject.

Early on, this manifested itself in structures that would completely cocoon the body, physically connect people, or distort their proportions through stuffing.

Beyond garment making, they utilize objects to achieve their signature bulbous silhouettes through mediums of wire, collage, or stuffed animals.

Riley’s work presents the viewer with unfamiliar usage of familiar materials–challenging the ways that the viewer is able to interact with and understand the structure.

Through exploring the infinite shapes a form can take, Riley presents the peculiar as the intimate.