Sam Messer (born 1955), is a

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...

living in

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with his wife,

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and

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Eleanor Gaver, and daughter. He is Professor Emeritus at the

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. He has painted numerous paintings of the author

Paul Auster Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American writer and film director. His notable works include ''The New York Trilogy'' (1987), '' Moon Palace'' (1989), '' The Music of Chance'' (1990), ''The Book of Illusions'' (2002), '' The B ...

's typewriter (''

The Story of My Typewriter ''The Story of My Typewriter'' is a 2002 book, by Paul Auster, mostly with pictures by the painter Sam Messer. It is about the author's old Olympia ( de) typewriter. Auster bought the typewriter in 1974 from an old college friend who had owned it ...

''). Messer's animation titled ''Denis the Pirate'' was featured in a Matrix Gallery exhibit in the Fall of 2017 at the

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in Hartford, Connecticut. In 2019, Messer will show work in
Strange Loops
' at

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, curated by Federico Solmi and Johannes DeYoung.

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20th-century American painters American male painters 21st-century American painters Living people Yale School of Art faculty 1955 births 20th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1950s-stub