Maess Anand

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Maess Anand
Born1982
Warsaw, Poland
Alma materAcademy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Known forDrawing contemporary art

Maess Anand (née: Malgorzata Skrzypek,[1][2] also called Maess;[3] born in 1982 in Warsaw[1]) is a Polish visual artist who works with drawing.[1][3]

Career[edit]

Anand graduated with MFA from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Poland in 2007[1][4] and was recipient of a scholarship at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design in Porto, Portugal.[1]

Maess Anand has presented work in, among others: The Drawing Center[5][6] in New York, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum,[7][8] Kasia Michalski Gallery in Warsaw,[9] The Starak Family Foundation in Warsaw,[10] Kibla in Maribor, Slovenia,[11] Warsaw Austrian Cultural Forum,[12] in conjunction with the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Polish Institute in Budapest,[4] BWA - Municipal Art Gallery of Bydgoszcz Poland and IK Projects[13] in Lima, Peru.

The artist has been awarded following fellowships: Yaddo[14] in Saratoga Springs, Residency Unlimited[15] in New York, Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, LIA Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei in Leipzig,[16]Virginia Center for the Creative Arts[17] in Amherst, Virginia and International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York.[18]

With Alex Urso, Maess Anand curated Biennale de La Biche; the smallest biennale in the world held on a deserted island near Guadeloupe. Biennale de la Biche held in 2017 has been reviewed by The Guardian,[19]Hyperallergic,[20] Ming Pao,[21]Artnet,[22]Art Review,[23] and The Observer.[24]

Anand's work is held in the permanent collections of BWA - Municipal Art Gallery of Bydgoszcz in Poland[25] and Imago Mundi Collection in Treviso, Italy.[26]

Further reading[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

  • „The Day is Not Enough, a few autobiographical stories ( "Dzień jest za krótki-kilka opowieści autobiograficznych"), exhibition catalogue, ed. Ośrodek Kultury i Sztuki, p. 98–104, ed. Magdalena Ujma, ISBN 9788362290659, Wrocław, 2013
  • "The Intuitionists", exhibition catalogue, Drawing Papers, ed. The Drawing Center, ISBN 9780942324877, p. 46 and 104, ed. Lisa Sigal and Margaret Sundell, New York, 2014
  • "Fukt Magazine for Contemporary Drawing 8/9", ISBN 978-3-86895-088-5, Revolver Publishing, p. 136–139 and 174, Berlin, 2010
  • What-is-not (Nietota) exhibition catalogue, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum / Galeria Miejska BWA, ISBN 9788361675037, ed Paweł Baśnik, Tomasz Brzeski (et al.), Wrocław-Bydgoszcz 2018
  • Watroba, Joanna, Images of Female Intimacy in Contemporary Polish Art, Kolegium Miedzyobszarowych Indywidualnych Studiów Humanistycznych i Spolecznych Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego:, Polish Academy of Sciences p 135, 2014

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Rychter, Karolina. "Maess Anand | Życie i twórczość | Artysta". Culture.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  2. ^ "ISNI 0000000513227965 Anand, Maess ( born 1982 )". isni.oclc.org. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Anand, Maess (1982 – )". digitaltmuseum.org. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  4. ^ a b Abnormal Results, Bente Brattland, The Lancet Oncology, Volume 16, No. 15, p1459-1460, Elsevier, London, 11/ 2015
  5. ^ Maess at New York’s Drawing Center ,Culture.pl, 12 June 2014
  6. ^ [1]Drawing Center exhibition schedule, The Intuitionists
  7. ^ Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, exhibitions calendar
  8. ^ "There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists” („Nie ma sztuki, są artyści" ), Anna Stec, Obieg.pl, 2013
  9. ^ Kasia Michalski Gallery
  10. ^ Starak Family Foundation website
  11. ^ Radiotelevizija Slovenija, Dve razstavi, štiri umetnice: dvodnevni program mariborske Kible, Slovenia, 2019
  12. ^ [2]Warsaw Autumn programme 2019, archived website
  13. ^ Zając, Joanna. "EXHIBITION IN A SUITCASE FLEW FROM WARSAW TO LIMA | Contemporary Lynx – print and online magazine on art & visual culture". contemporarylynx.co.uk. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  14. ^ Yaddo, List of artist guests
  15. ^ profile at Residency Unlimited, New York, 2018
  16. ^ Leipzig International Art Programme
  17. ^ VCCA alumni list
  18. ^ profile at ISCP New York, 2023
  19. ^ The Guardian, Jonathan Jones, Welcome to the world's smallest art fair – on a disappearing speck of sand, 8 January 2017
  20. ^ Hyperallergic, Claire Voon, World’s Smallest Biennale Drops Anchor on Caribbean Islet" February 7, 2017
  21. ^ Ming Pao最迷你藝術雙年展 警示暖化; mingpao.com, 2017
  22. ^ Artnet, Tiny Island Plays Host to Biennale de La Biche, the World’s Smallest Biennial, Sarah Cascone, 23 January 2017
  23. ^ Art Review, World’s ‘smallest’ biennial on Ilet la Biche, Guadeloupe, 2017
  24. ^ The Observer, This Island Shack Holds World’s Smallest Biennale, Sotheby’s Sues Over Fake Painting, Guelda Voien, The observer.com, 2 July 2017
  25. ^ BWA – Municipal Art Gallery of Bydgoszcz
  26. ^ Imago Mundi collection website, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, Treviso, Italy
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