Josephine Messer

Brooklyn-based painter Josephine Messer’s work bridges the gap between the individual and the whole. Her paintings are process-based, and are created by repetitive pours of paint, which she makes herself out of pigment and urethane. The final compositions serve to break down pictorial space into an undefinable shape. Each panel is a fragment of a personal narrative, and yet when they are exhibited together, they tell a different narrative entirely.

Messer received her BFA from the Cooper Union and her MFA from Yale University. Messer’s work has been included in exhibitions at Western Exhibitions, Chicago; and Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New Release Gallery, Ferro Strouse Gallery, and the Bruce High Quality Foundation, all in New York.