MESSER, Sam

Couple

1989

diptych; monotype on Rives BFK

38 1/2 x 25 1/2 in.

Body; diptych with 1994.42; These prints by Sam Messer depict a double-faced head in the tradition of the Greek god Janus and an abstract collage of body parts. Messer describes his work as having no logic when it comes to scale or orientation, but instead of having an "internal narrativethat dictates where things are and how things relate." At the time, Messer was working at the Santa Barbara studio on a series about "good fences making better neighbors."

1989

MESSER, Sam

United States, b. 1955

MUSEUM PURCHASE FUND

1994.41