Background

Mark Messersmith was born in 1955 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

Education

Mark Messersmith received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Fontbonne University in 1977. It was followed by a Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University, Bloomington three years later.

Career

Mark Messersmith has regularly exhibited his artworks around the United States, including at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Tyler Museum of Art, and Ogden Museum of Southern Art among others.

Nowadays, the artist lives and works in Tallahassee, Florida where he serves as a professor of painting and drawing at Florida State University.

Achievements

• Mark Messersmith is an accomplished artist praised for his unique ability to reflect our current relation to other living creatures combining the traditions of the 15th century with his own complex imagery.
  
  Messersmith has been a recipient of many fellowships, including from Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Southern Arts Federation. In 2001, he obtained the Grand Prix of XXXIII Festival International de la Peinture, in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, and Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting Award five years later.
  
  Messersmith’s art is acquired by such public collections as Florida State University’s Museum of Fine Art, the Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, The Nature Conservancy, Florida Chapter, and Tyler Museum of Art.

Works

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• painting

  • Spring Night

  • MIssed Balance

  • Ursa Major Lost

  • The Weight of Everything

  • Discontent and Anxieties

  • Irredeemable

  • Arcadian Fire

  • Dark Deeds

  • Evening Labors

  • Night Watch

  • Cedar Waxwing

  • Genuflect

  • Shadow of Days

  • Great Crested Flycatcher

  • The Philosophaster

  • Spring Twilight

  • Twilight Lucidity

  • Evanescence Field

  • In Deep Woods, Forgotten

  • Evening Travelers

• sculpture

  • Untitled

  • Untitled

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Interests

• Artists

  Martin Johnson Heade, George Inness, Thomas Moran, James Audubon, Winslow Homer

References

• Mark Messersmith Official Website