Sam Messer
1955–

Introduction

Sam Messer (born 1955), is a painter living in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, film writer and director Eleanor Gaver, and daughter. He is Professor Emeritus at the Yale School of Art.

He has painted numerous paintings of the author Paul Auster's typewriter (The Story of My Typewriter).

Messer's animation titled Denis the Pirate was featured in a Matrix Gallery exhibit in the Fall of 2017 at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. In 2019, Messer will show work in Strange Loops at Artspace, curated by Federico Solmi and Johannes DeYoung.

Wikidata identifier

Q7407912

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Country of birth

United States

Roles

Artist, painter

ULAN identifier

500098635

Names

Sam Messer

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