Ann Agee
In an exhibit that will be made up of three distinct but related bodies of work, installation artist Ann Agee makes her home the subject of inspection. With one foot planted in the world of her mother's privileged upbringing and the other in the world of her father's humble beginnings, Agee--long known as a figurative ceramicist--explores the intersection of domestic space and art production, merging decorative and fine arts and playing with historical conventions of art as seen through contemporary eyes.
She gives domesticity its own spin with large-scale murals of idyllic suburban scenes presented on blue and white porcelain tile; elaborate, porcelain vases and hand-made porcelain platters arranged on steel armature; and figurines whose dynamic gestures and lively, humorous poses are an updated riff on commedia dell'arte iconography, celebrating modern, daily life.
Agee, who graduated with a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and an MFA from Yale School of Art, has taught at Princeton University as a Visiting Lecturer at the Lewis Center for the Arts from 2006-2010. She has been a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, among others. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States, and her work is in the collections of The Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; The RISD Museum, RI; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; The Henry Art Museum in Seattle, WA; The Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, WI; and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, FL.
Ann Agee's exhibit at Lux is underwritten by Laurel Jean Yoder.
Solo Exhibitions thru 1990
2011
Ann Agee, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA, Sept/Oct.
2010
Ann Agee, Rules of the Pattern, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Nov/Dec.
2007
Ann Agee, Virginia Commonwealth University Gallery, VA
2005
Boxing in the Kitchen, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Ann Agee, PPOW 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
Selected Group Exhibitions thru 1990
2011
New Wallworks, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
2010
Interactions, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Figure: Contemporary Works in the Collection, RISD Art Museum, Providence, RI
2009
Dirt on Delight - Impulses That Form Clay, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Princeton Visual Art Faculty Exhibition, Paul Robeson Center, Princeton Arts Council, Princeton, NJ
Room Unoccupied, Fordham University, NY
2008
Conversations in Clay, Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY
2007
Domestic Deities, Garth Clarck Gallery, NY
2006
Bong, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, NY
2005
City Arts, The Center for Architecture, NY
A Tale to Tell, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI
2004
Standing Room Only, Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, CA
Conceptual Realism, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003
Corporeal Identity-Body Language, Fur Angewandte Kunst Museum, Frankfurt, Germany and Chicago Anteneum Chicago, IL and in 2004, Museum of Art and Design, NY
Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
On the Wall, Rhode Island School of Design Art Museum, Providence, RI
2002
What’s the Use?, J P S Gallery University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, MI
Sex Pots: The erotic life of clay, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001
The Shock of the Mundane, University of Washington, Henry Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2000
Color and Fire: Defining moments in studio ceramics 1950 to 2000, L A County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1999
Pattern, James Graham & Sons Gallery, New York, NY
Domestic Transformations, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
1998
Ordinary/Extraordinary, Johnson County Community College of Art, Kansas City, MO
1997
Pool, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ornament and Landscape: On the nature of Artifice, Apex Gallery, NY
The Handmade Tale, The Robbins Center for Graduate Studies at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1996
Millennium Eve Dress, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
1995
Configura 2 – Dialogue of Cultures, Erfurt 1995, Erfurt, Germany
1994
Bad Girls, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY