The content of this talk will be about the development of Agee’s work and influences. It will include how she came to clay from painting — a cousin to ceramics, her interest in making things, the experience of working in a ceramic factory setting for two years and how that experience has reverberated in her work over time. She will also speak about her attraction to home, interiors and decorative arts, traditionally woman’s domain, as inspiration, knowledge, language and many other things!
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.
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.
This event is part of 92Ys Virtual Clay™ series: offering first of a kind, real-time online classes that gather a vibrant community of artists, designers and art historians to speak with you about important topics in ceramics. The conversations are meant to challenge preconceptions and explore new territory, inspiring you to think about the world in fresh and different ways.
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