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.[1]

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.[2][3][4] In 2019, Messer will show work in Strange Loops at Artspace, curated by Federico Solmi and Johannes DeYoung.

References

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  1. ^ Yale University School of Art: SamuelMesser
  2. ^ Dunne, Susan (23 October 2017). "Imaginative 'Denis The Pirate' Video, Stills At Wadsworth Atheneum". courant.com. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
  3. ^ Corbett, Rachel (16 December 2014). "We've Unearthed a Rare Denis Johnson Story About Pirates". www.vulture.com. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
  4. ^ Johnson, Denis (2003). "Denis the Pirate". Vol. Fall 2003, no. 167. ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved 2019-05-22.