Corbett vs. Dempsey

Ann Starr works with equal fluency in images and words, combining the two in unique artist’s books. Her books focus on the medicalized body, mental illness, and fantasies on the way in which we create images out of language. She has shown at the Center for Book Arts in New York, and three times at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Corbett vs. Dempsey has a wide range of her artist books, drawings and paintings.

Starr’s paintings and drawings have been seen in shows curated by such jurors as painter Joan Snyder; Nan Rosenthal, consultant to the Metropolitan Museum; Robert Reed of Yale University; Jan Howard of the Baltimore Art Museum; Phyllis Rosenzweig of the Hirshhorn Gallery; and John Caldwell of San Francisco’s MOMA.

Starr also lectures about her images and their intellectual sources. She is an independent scholar specializing in fine art and the human body. She has lectured many places, including the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Yale Medical School, Cambridge University, the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, and the medical school of the University of Chicago. She teaches an art course as a member of the faculty of Ethics and Medical Humanities at the Northwestern University Medical School each winter.