| ANN MESSNER | |
| A current recipient of a Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe College, Ann Messner is a visual artist who lives lives in New York. She is also a visiting professor in MIT's Visual Arts Program. Over the past 25 years, Messner has focused her attention as a visual artist primarily in an investigation of and a concern for what she perceives as a contemporary schism between private and public life. A most recent project was a public siting of 'Amniotic Sea' at Foley Square, adjacent to both the Federal and Supreme Court buildings, in New York, now shown at Livingroom Newport; the installation of 'Flood', Messner's Guggenheim project at the Stark Gallery and Ann Messner: Subway Stories and Other Shorts -- Performance and Film 1977 – 80' curated by Nina Felshin at the Dorsky Gallery, both also in New York. In 1995 she was a recipient of a Henry Moore International Fellowship, in 1996 a Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and most recently in 1998 she was awarded an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, now in its third cycle of funding. She has taught and lectured at a number of institutions: Princeton University, Hunter College, Bennington College, Pratt Institute, Maryland Institute of Art among them. |
Amniotic Sea, 1999 |