Essay On Audrey Niffenegger

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Lindsey Goss
English 232-01
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May 1, 2014

Final Paper: Audrey Niffenegger
Audrey Niffenegger was born in the town of South Haven, Michigan in 1963. When she was a small child her family moved to Evanston, Illinois, since then she has lived in or near Chicago. At the age of fifteen she started making prints under the name of William Wimmer. Niffenegger studied to be a visual artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.In 1991, Audrey Niffenegger then went on to receive her MFA from Northwestern University's Department of Art Theory and Practice. Her artist's books, prints, paintings, drawings, and comics in the Printworks Gallery located in Chicago since 1987. She has 239 paintings displayed at The National Meuseum of Women in the Arts. These paintings are not like most, in that the women depicted in the paintings are not smiling. The subjects of the paintings seem to be shrinking away from the viewer and at the same time powerfully meeting the gaze of the person viewing the painting. These paintings include the women from her book and paintings of herself as variou...

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