ABOUT MATTHIAS MERKEL HESS
Matthias Merkel Hess was born and raised in Iowa and moved to Los Angeles in 2002. Since that time, he has studied art and worked at
bookstores and non-profit arts institutions while continuing his earlier interest in journalism and environmental science. In 2007, Hess began an MFA at UCLA where he will graduate in June 2010. Last year, Hess co-founded Mammut, a magazine that focuses on art and the environment. In graduate school, Hess also continued to hone his artistic practice, which is concerned with artistic labor, the status and reception of craft
objects within the art world, and the role of pottery in contemporary art and society.
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