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Agee, Ann
American; (b. 1959, Philadelphia, PA; lives in Brooklyn, NY)
1986 MFA Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1981 BFA The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
Recognized early in her professional career as an innovative ceramicist and artist,
SELECTED REFERENCES:
the two-time National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient (1989, 1992)
Agee, Ann. “Biography.” Ann Agee
has continued to receive accolades including The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Award in 1997 and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2011. Ann
Agee’s residency at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s Arts/Industry program
Studio. Accessed March 12, 2014.
http://www.annageestudio.com/
ann%20agee%20bio.html
“Ann Agee, 2011 - US
at the Kohler Co. factory in Kohler, Wisconsin (1991), as well as her experience
& Canada Competition
at a ceramics factory in Guanajuato, Mexico, as part of a National Endowment
Creative Arts - Fine Arts.” John
for the Arts–Mexico exchange fellowship in 1993, furthered the artist’s interest in
factory processes and mold castings. Over the course of her artistic career, Agee’s
figurative ceramic works, reminiscent of delicate yet playful Rococo figurines,
Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation. Accessed January
15, 2014. http://www.gf.org/
fellows/17066-ann-agee
have transformed into domestic objects that adopt a Delftware-style and mesh
together historical models with contemporary and often bawdy imagery.
ANN AGEE WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION
Tulip Vase
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