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Mark Messersmith

Education:

Master of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1980, Painting.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Fontbonne College, St. Louis, Missouri, 1977, Painting.

Selected Awards:

Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant Award, 2006
Le Grand Prix, XXXIII Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes -sur-Mer, France, July, 2001 (purchase award).
Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, Individual Artist Fellowship Awards, (1999 and 1993 and 1987).
National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation, Regional Fellowship Awards for Emerging Visual Artists, (1994 and 1988).
Ford Foundation Fellowships, (1980 and 1979).

Selected Exhibition:

Kingdom Animalia, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, December 1-23 2006 (Group Exhibition)
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland Florida, December,2007-February2008, (Solo Exhibition)
EMBLEMATIC, McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina, August 29th -September 29th, 2006 (Group Exhibition)
Taking the Dog for a Walk, Leo Kamen Gallery Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 26- September 2, 2006 (Group Exhibition)
Under the Fort, The Rhys Gallery , Boston, Massachusetts (Group Exhibition), curated by Evelyn Rudz, June-July 2006
High Roads and Low Roads, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida, February 17-March 26, 2006, The Arts Center Galleries of Okaloosa-Walton College Arts Center Galleries, October 15- November 30, 2006. (Group Exhibition)
New Paintings, 2000-2005, Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, Florida, December 10 2005 -February 5, 2006 (Solo Exhibition)
30th Parallel: A Convergence of Contemporary Painting, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville Florida, September 2005-January 2006
Florida Focus, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo Florida, September-November 2005
Nature of the Beast, University of Arkansas, Fine Arts Gallery, January-February 2004, (Solo Exhibition)
Shakespeare Theater, Washington, D.C. 5 paintings for Ibsen's play, "Ghosts", directed by Edwin Sherin, staring Jane Alexander. June 3 thru July 27, 2003
Luminous Nightmares Creald'e School of Art,Winter Park, Florida, April 18 May 31, 2003, (Solo Exhibition)
Wild Life: The Other Tradition, January 12-April 16, 2002, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida. (Group Exhibition)
Cagnes-sur-Mer, XXXIII Festival International de la Peinture , Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, June 30-September 30, 2001, organized by the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
The Apocalyptic Landscape: Paintings by Mark Messersmith, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida, June, 2001, The Apocalyptic Landscape: Paintings by Mark Messersmith , Loyola University, October 2000 - January 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, (Solo Exhibition)
Contemporary Citrus Imagery by Florida Artists , Tampa Museum of Art, May, 1999, Tampa, Florida, (Group Exhibition).
Paintings by Mark Messersmith, University of Alabama at Birmingham, July 1999, Birmingham, Alabama, (Solo Exhibition).
New Mythologies, Florida Gulf Coast Arts Center, December 1996 - February 1997, Belleair, Florida, and touring December 1997 - January 1998, (Solo Exhibition)
Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship Exhibition, Southeastern Center For Contemporary Art (SECCA), 1994, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Web site: markmessersmith.com

Artwork Description

A lone and melancholy mask is carried by a blustery wind over a mystical landscape at dusk. This piece was donated by Sam Fleeger.