Ann Agee (b. 1959) investigates craft traditions and industrial production, creating ceramic sculptures and mixed media installations that explore appropriation, mimicry, and reproduction. P.P.O.W will present an installation of over 100 ceramic sculptures from her ongoing series, Hand Warmers 2018-2019. Inspired by 18th Century Italian folk pottery and made from a variety of clays, fired in various kilns, this sculptural installation showcases the range and diversity of ceramic techniques. Agee earned her MFA from Yale University in 1986. She has had installations at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, and her work has been included in notable ceramics exhibitions, including Dirt on Delight, Institute of Contemporary Art, PA and the Walker Art Center, MN, and Conversations in Clay, Katonah Art Museum, NY. In 2011 she was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and has also been the recipient of The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, among others. Agee lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
