Sam Messer
Born in 1955, Messer received a BFA from Cooper Union in 1976 and an MFA from Yale University in 1982. He was appointed senior critic at Yale in 1994 and became associate dean and adjunct professor in 2005. He also serves at the director of the art division of the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk. Messer’s work is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. He has received awards including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Mr. Magic, 2014
Inkjet with collaged etching
Sheet: 33 x 23 ¼ inches
Image: 31 ¾ x 22 inches
Paper: German Etching
Editon: 20