Jane Grossenbacher

B. Jane Grossenbacher

• "Jane is the best friend and pal that one can have. We met..."

- Nancy Bergman

 

B. Jane Grossenbacher Friends will gather to celebrate the life of B. Jane Grossenbacher, who died at her home in San Francisco after a battle with ovarian cancer Sept. 16. Born in 1951 in Tulsa, OK, Jane studied at Indiana University and San Francisco Art Institute. She loved adventure and traveling - to Spain to study flamenco dancing and to Morocco to shoot photos. She traveled with a circus for a year and lived and worked in England and in Santa Fe, New Mexico before settling in San Francisco. Her black and white images and photogravures have been featured in art shows and galleries internationally and are in private collections throughout North America and in Japan and Europe. Collectors include the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. She had been teaching at the Academy of Art, and living in Project Artaud with artist Keith Bjorkman, her husband of 16 years. She is also survived by a sister, Mary Lee (Elden) Gutwein of Monticello, IN; an aunt and two uncles. The memorial will take place from 2-6 pm Sat, Nov. 29 at the Project Artaud Theater, 450 Florida St., SF. Visitors are asked to call 415-863-1651 to respond. Donations may be made to Kaiser Hospice of South San Francisco, 1200 El Camino Real, SSF 94080.

Published in San Francisco Chronicle on November 23, 2008

 

PLEASE - If you knew this classmate write memories to share with others as a "comment" below.  Thank you!