Anissa Mack

{{short description|American artist}}

Anissa Mack (born 1970) is an American contemporary artist. Mack is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown.{{Cite web |last=Lang |first=Joel |date=9 December 2017 |title=Anissa Mack's "Junk Kaleidoscope" at Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum |url=https://www.ctpost.com/living/article/Anissa-Mack-s-Junk-Kaleidoscope-at-12414437.php |access-date=28 June 2022 |website=Connecticut Post |language=en-US}} Mack is known for her sculptural and mixed media works that take state fairs as inspiration.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/arts/design/anissa-mack-state-fair-aldrich-contemporary-art-museum.html|title=And the Blue Ribbon Goes to ... Anissa Mack|first=Meredith|last=Mendelsohn|work=The New York Times |date=20 October 2017|publisher=|via=NYTimes.com|access-date=8 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408162205/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/arts/design/anissa-mack-state-fair-aldrich-contemporary-art-museum.html|archive-date=8 April 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=Carrigan |first=Margaret |date=19 October 2017 |title=Artist Anissa Mack Constructs a Love Song to the County Fair |url=https://observer.com/2017/10/anisa-mack-county-fair-art/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408162206/https://observer.com/2017/10/anisa-mack-county-fair-art/ |archive-date=8 April 2019 |access-date=8 April 2019 |website=Observer |publisher=}} Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art{{cite web |title=Anissa Mack |url=https://www.whitney.org/artists/11998 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408162203/https://www.whitney.org/artists/11998 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |access-date=2019-04-08 |website=Whitney Museum of American Art}} and the International Center of Photography.{{cite web|url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/after-the-fact-rachel-and-ren%C3%A9e-collins-at-riteaid-on-125th-st|title=After the Fact (Rachel and Renée Collins at RiteAid on 125th St.)|date=29 February 2016|website=International Center of Photography|access-date=8 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829080837/https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/after-the-fact-rachel-and-ren%C3%A9e-collins-at-riteaid-on-125th-st|archive-date=29 August 2016|url-status=live}} Mack's "Junk Kaleidoscope" was installed at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum from October 2017 to April 2018.{{Cite web |title=Anissa Mack: Junk Kaleidoscope |url=https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/anissa-mack-junk-kaleidoscope |access-date=28 June 2022 |website=The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum |language=en}}