Global InformationAnn Agee information
Ann Agee | |
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| Born | 1959 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
| Education | Yale School of Art, Cooper Union School of Art |
| Known for | Ceramic sculpture, installation art, painting, drawing |
| Awards | John S. Guggenheim Fellowship, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, New York Foundation for the Arts, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts |
| Website | Ann Agee Studio |
Ann Agee (born 1959) is an American visual artist whose practice centers on ceramic figurines, objects and installations, hand-painted wallpaper drawings, and sprawling exhibitions that merge installation art, domestic environment and showroom.[1][2][3] Her art celebrates everyday objects and experiences, decorative and utilitarian arts, and the dignity of work and craftsmanship, engaging issues involving gender, labor and fine art with a subversive, feminist stance.[4][5][6][7] Agee's work fits within a multi-decade shift in American art in which ceramics and considerations of craft and domestic life rose from relegation to second-class status to recognition as "serious" art.[8][9][10] She first received critical attention in the influential and divisive "Bad Girls" exhibition,[11] curated by Marcia Tucker at the New Museum in 1994, where she installed a functional, handmade ceramic bathroom, rendered in the classic blue-and-white style of Delftware.[12][13][14] Art in America critic Lilly Wei describes Agee's later work as "the mischievous, wonderfully misbegotten offspring of sculpture, painting, objet d'art, and kitschy souvenir."[1]
Agee has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from Anonymous Was A Woman, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, among others.[15][16] Her work has been collected by institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and Philadelphia Museum of Art.[17][18][19] She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.[20]
- ^ a b Wei, Lilly. "Ann Agee," Art in America, March 28, 2011. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
- ^ Kreimer, Julian. "Ann Agee," Art in America, June 3, 2015. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
- ^ Viladas, Pilar. "Little Women/Welcome to the Dollhouse," The New York Times Magazine, December 26, 1999, p. 45–50. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
- ^ Hirsch, Faye. "Ann Agee at Arena," Art in America, March 1995.
- ^ McClister, Nell. "Ann Agee," Artforum, March 1, 2011. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
- ^ Sherlock, Maureen P. "Quotidian: Ann Agee's New Work", Quotidian, New York: Yoshii Gallery, 1996.
- ^ Liu, Catherine. "The Humanities and Artisanal Education: Technocrats and Artisans in the Contemporary University," College Literature, Spring 2015, p. 280–310.
- ^ Wei, Lilly. "Claytime! Ceramics Finds Its Place in the Art-World Mainstream," ARTnews, January 15, 2014. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
- ^ Smith, Roberta. "Raucous Caucus of Feminists Being Bad," The New York Times, March 19, 2009. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
- ^ Shaffner, Ingrid. "Ann Agee," in Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay, by Ingrid Shaffner, Janelle Porter and Glenn Adamson, Philadelphia, PA: Institute of Contemporary Art, 2009. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
- ^ Tucker, Marcia (ed). Bad Girls, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1994. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
- ^ Hirsch, Faye. "Unalienated Labor: Q+A with Ann Agee," Art in America, October 5, 2012. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
- ^ Smith, Roberta. "Crucible of Creativity, Stoking Earth Into Art," The New York Times, January 21, 1994, p. C5. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
- ^ Jones, Amelia (ed.). The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, New York: Routledge, 2010. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
- ^ Artforum. "2011 Guggenheim Fellows Announced," April 7, 2011. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
- ^ Anonymous Was a Woman. "Award Recipients." Retrieved February 26, 2020.
- ^ Brooklyn Museum. "Ann Agee," Collection. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
- ^ John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. "Ann Agee," Fellows. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
- ^ Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Vase, Ann Agee," Collections. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
- ^ Dube, Ilene. "Ceramic ware exhibit 'Beyond Function' now showing in Princeton," WHYY/PBS, May 12, 2015. Retrieved February 26, 2020.