Ann Hirsch

sculpture / mixed media

web : home.att.net/~hirsch.a/AHirschPortfolio/
email : hirsch.a@att.net

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about the artist / work

I work with the idea of “The Group” in order to look into questions about identity. Groups of like-entities enable me to explore such dichotomies as self and other and individual versus collective identity. As populations of nearly identical units, or clones, the figures address both our capacity to communicate with ourselves and with one another, and our spatial and psychological relationships to sculptural objects. We seek out the Other through art, only to find ourselves again.

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Ann Hirsch makes animate and inanimate sculpture. She earned a BA in Art History and Fine Arts from Barnard College, an MA from N.Y.U. and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art from which she received a 1 year research fellowship. Since 2002 she has worked as a freelance sculptor and educator, shown extensively in New York and Massachusetts and is the recipient of grants from the Prince of Wales Foundation and the Blanche E. Colman Foundation.