Name Ann Agee | ||
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | ||
Ann agee creating a vase
Ann Agee is an American visual artist who works mainly in ceramics, often reappropriating traditional designs such as blue-and-white patterns. Her works include ceramic murals, an entire ceramic bathroom, and ceramic sex toys. Additionally, in 1996, Agee began to design wallpapers and has since become well known for her designs. She was a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.
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She earned a BFA at Cooper Union School of Art in 1981 and an MFA from Yale University in 1986. At her Cooper Union graduation, Agee was given the A. I. Friedman Traveling Scholarship. With this, she was granted three months to study artwork in Northern Italy. She first came to fame in the Bad Girls show at the New Museum, New York in 1994.
Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Rhode Island School of Design Museum; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Exhibitions
2012 The Kitchen Sink, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA September 4 - Oct 25
2011 Ann Agee, Lux Art, Encenida, CA. Sept/Oct.
2010 Ann Agee, Rules of the Pattern, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Nov/Dic.
2007 Ann Agee, Virginia Commonwealth University Gallery, VA
2005 Boxing in the Kitchen, PPOW Gallery, NY
2001 Ann Agee, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Ann Agee, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 Ann Agee, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Quotidian, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Factory work, Arena Gallery New York, NY
1993 Ann Agee, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1991 Contradictions in Clay, Ann Nathan Gallery Chicago, IL
Residency
Between 1991 and '92 Agee completed her art residency at a Wisconsin plumbing factory, working in the industrial plumbing section of the factory. Agee's residency at this factory impacted her artistic style and changed her views on manual labor. Likewise, her views on feminism were enhanced by the experience.
Rules of the Pattern exhibition
This was a 2009 solo exhibition of Agee’s in which the environment mirrored the set-up of her own Brooklyn apartment. Agee’s artwork was hung against bright walls and leaned against intricate articles of furniture throughout the faux apartment. Aside from paintings, this exhibition also included hand-crafted vases, plates, and bowls resting on pieces of furniture and armatures.
