New Haven, 2006
8x10”
Oil on canvas
Value: $3,000
Artwork image and details coming soon.
Sam Messer was born 1955 and received his B.F.A. from Cooper Union in 1977, and an M.F.A. from Yale University in 1981. His figurative expressionist paintings first appeared in New York during the early 1980s. Recently, Messer collaborated with his friend Paul Auster on a tribute to the relationship between writer and typewriter, to which he contributed over 30 paintings and drawings. On Messer, author Denis Johnson wrote: “One achievement of Sam Messer's portraits is this: That we turn from them, look out our windows, and understand that we're seeing people…and that in seeing them we get willing to understand that somebody like that is who we originally and truly are, each of us, but overlaid by the lash marks of a conventional education.” He is represented by the Nielsen Gallery, and is currently the Assistant Dean at the Yale School of Art.