Ann Agee

Ann Agee (an haife ta a shekara ta 1959) 'yar Amurka ce mai zane-zanen gani wacce aikinta ya mayar da hankali kan siffofi na yumbu, abubuwa da kayan aiki, zane-zanen bangon waya da aka fenti da hannu, da kuma nune-nunen da suka haɗu da fasahar shigarwa, muhallin gida da ɗakin nunin kaya.    Fasaharta tana bikin abubuwa da gogewa na yau da kullun, fasahar ado da amfani, da kuma mutuncin aiki da sana'a, batutuwan da suka shafi jinsi, aiki da fasaha mai kyau tare da matsayin mata masu tayar da hankali.     Aikin Agee ya dace da sauyi na shekaru da yawa a cikin fasahar Amurka inda yumbu da la'akari da sana'a da rayuwar gida suka tashi daga koma baya zuwa matsayi na biyu zuwa amincewa da fasaha "mai mahimmanci".    Ta fara samun kulawa mai mahimmanci a baje kolin " Bad Girls " mai tasiri da rarrabuwar kawuna,  wanda Marcia Tucker ta shirya a Sabon Gidan Tarihi a shekarar 1994, inda ta sanya bandaki mai aiki, na yumbu da aka yi da hannu, wanda aka yi shi da salon Delftware mai launin shuɗi da fari.    Mai sukar fasaha a Amurka Lilly Wei ta bayyana aikin Agee na baya a matsayin "ɗan banza, mai ban mamaki, ɗan sassaka, zane, kayan zane, da kuma abin tunawa na kitschy." 
Agee ta sami lambar yabo ta Guggenheim da kyaututtuka daga Anonymous Was A Woman, da kuma gidauniyar Louis Comfort Tiffany, da sauransu.   Cibiyoyi sun tattara ayyukanta ta hanyar cibiyoyin da suka haɗa da Gidan Tarihi na Brooklyn, Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Gundumar Los Angeles (LACMA), da Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Philadelphia .    Tana zaune kuma tana aiki a Brooklyn, New York. 

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An haifi Agee a Philadelphia a shekarar 1959. [1] Mahaifiyarta, Sally Agee, ta sami digirin fasaha a Jami'ar Syracuse kuma ta nuna fasaha a ƙarshen rayuwarta; yadda take kula da gidan a matsayin wani aiki mai ci gaba - gyara kayan daki, fentin zane-zanen furanni a bangon banɗaki ko aikin Abstract Expressionist a ƙasa - ya yi tasiri sosai ga Ann. [2] Agee ta yi karatu a Makarantar Fasaha ta Cooper Union (BFA, 1981) da Makarantar Fasaha ta Yale (MFA, 1986) kuma ta sami kyaututtuka don zane a duka biyun. [3] [2] Duk da haka, ta ji an danne ta da al'adar zane-zane da maza suka mamaye a Yale, wadda ta ba da matsayi da mahimmanci kan zane fiye da sauran nau'ikan bayyanawa. [4] [5] Ta koma aiki a cikin yumbu a shekarar 1985, ta jawo hankalinta saboda yanayinta, alaƙar da ke tsakaninta da duniya, matsayinta na wucin gadi, da kuma damar da za ta iya ɗauka a matsayin mace. [5] [6]

Banɗakin Ruwa na Lake Michigan (1994), wani bandaki mai kyau da aka yi wa ado da kyau, mai amfani (bandaki, bayan gida, bidet, maɓuɓɓugar ruwa da ruwa) da aka ƙirƙira a Kohler, ya jawo hankalin Agee ta farko ta hanyar baje kolin "Bad Girls".    Kayan aikin sa da aka yi da hannu da tayal ɗin mosaic na bango suna nuna zane-zane masu kyau, zane-zane da hotuna waɗanda aka nuna a cikin salon shuɗi da fari na Delftware.   Hoton yana ba da abin da Metropolis ke kira, "yawon shakatawa na Rabelaisian " na kwararar ruwa ta birane, masana'antu da gida, yana haɗa jiki, ayyukan jama'a da na sirri, da kuma gine-gine da na jiki.     Sauran manyan ayyukan yumbu na farko na Agee sun haɗa da zane mai siffar tayal na yumbu mai tsawon inci 21 da inci 10 wanda ke lalata ma'aikatan masana'antar Kohler (1991–2) da kuma cikakken bandakin, Ɗakin Maza na Sheboygan (1998), wanda Cibiyar Fasaha ta Kohler ta ba da umarnin ginawa.  

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