Arnold Mesches

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Arnold Mesches (August 11, 1923 – November 5, 2016) was an American visual artist.

Bio

Arnold Mesches was born in 1923

Senator Joseph McCarthy era of the 1950s.[2] He created many series of "provocative, layered collages composed from his personal FBI file plus news clippings, 1950s magazine cutouts, personal photographs, and hand written scripts."[3]
Mesches has explored contemporary social and historical issues, informed by world history and his life during the Depression, which also reflect his art.

In 1970 he married, Jill Ciment, his seventeen-year-old student, who was thirty years his junior. Ciment went to become an accomplished novelist and memoirist. They remained happily married until his death.[4]

In 1984, he moved to New York City and taught at

Metropolitan Museum of Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in Sydney, Australia, among others.[5] He died on November 5, 2016, in Gainesville, Florida, at the age of 93.[6]

Awards

  • National Endowment of the Arts, 1982
  • Pollock-Krasner award, 2002 and 2008
  • Art Critics of America, 2004
  • Florida State Individual Grant 2007

References

  1. ^ "United States Public Records1970-2009". familysearch. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  2. ^ "Arnold Mesches". artscenecal.com.
  3. ^ "FindArticles.com - CBSi".
  4. ^ "Revision Quest". This American Life. 2019-12-07. Retrieved 2020-01-02.
  5. ^ "Going National » Features » Valdosta Daily Times". 5 February 2013. Archived from the original on 5 February 2013.
  6. ^ Grimes, William (9 November 2016). "Arnold Mesches, Artist Who Was Recorded by the F.B.I., Dies at 93". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.

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