Sam Messer

Sam Messer (born 1955), is a painter living in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, film writer and director Eleanor Gaver, and daughter. He is Professor Emeritus at the Yale School of Art.^[1]

He has painted numerous paintings of the author Paul Auster's typewriter (The Story of My Typewriter).

Messer's animation titled Denis the Pirate was featured in a Matrix Gallery exhibit in the Fall of 2017 at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.^[2][3][4] In 2019, Messer will show work in Strange Loops at Artspace, curated by Federico Solmi and Johannes DeYoung.