Ann Hirsch

sculpture / mixed media

studio: 6 Vernon Street, 2nd floor, #16
email : ann@annhirsch.com

click an image to start the slide show

about the artist / work

Ann Hirsch is a Somerville-based sculptor who works in a diverse range of materials from clay, resin and wood to bronze. Her work, both static and moving, explores the merging of traditional and contemporary sculptural approaches and materials. Each work is an investigation into the narrative possibilities suggested by each material and technique she uses.

Groups of like-entities is a recurring theme in her work by which she explores questions about identity and such dichotomies inherent to group formations as self and other and individual versus collective identity. As populations of nearly identical units, the figures she works with address both our capacity to communicate with ourselves and with one another, and our spatial and psychological relationships to sculptural objects.

Ann is an Adjunct Professor at Lesley University's Art Institute of Boston where she teaches Sculpture, Drawing and a range of 3D media courses.

She has completed numerous public and private commissions and has shown her work extensively in New York and Massachusetts. She is the recipient of grants from the Mellon Trust of New England and the Prince of Wales Foundation and of a one-year research fellowship from the New York Academy of Art. She graduated from the New York Academy of Art in 2002. Ann also completed an M.A. at New York University and a B.A. at Columbia University in Art History and Visual Arts.

Ann's studio is located on the second floor of 6 Vernon Street.