Ann Messner

[2] Messner is also known for her activism bringing attention to real estate inequalities in New York, especially as a participant in The Real Estate Show, an extra-legal artist occupation of a vacant New York City building (125 Delancey St) beginning on December 30, 1979, in order to mount an exhibition.

[5] Ann Messner, in collaboration with Carole Ashley, Elaine Angelopoulos, Debra Werblud and Larilyn Sanchez created and directed the documentary, Disarming Images, produced by Artists Against the War.

The documentation, covering the years 2001-2005, focused on protest groups who inventively spread their word against the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

[9] Messner's art practice has included several large-scale public sculptures that are aimed at urban pedestrian spaces.

Meteor, installed in New York City's Times Square 1987-1988, comprised five welded steel sculptures with various visual affinities to technology, satellites, and more domestic manufactured items like ironing boards.