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1936 Kastoria, Macedonia, Greece - 2024 New York City. Known for: Multi-media, modernist figure, collage-assemblage, happenings.
Working in mulit-medias and multi modernist styles, Lucas Samaras is both artist and theoretician who regards his life as an art object. In his work, he has combined Performance Art, and many forms... Read full biography
Working in mulit-medias and multi modernist styles, Lucas Samaras is both artist and theoretician who regards his life as an art object. In his work, he has combined Performance Art, and many forms of abstraction including post-Dadaism, post-Surrealism, and post-Abstract Expressionism. In 1959,... Read full biography
Working in mulit-medias and multi modernist styles, Lucas Samaras is both artist and theoretician who regards his life as an art object. In his work, he has combined Performance Art, and many forms of abstraction including post-Dadaism, post-Surrealism, and post-Abstract Expressionism. In 1959, Samaras took part in the earliest "Happenings" led by Allan Kaprow, in which the audience participated with the artist in disconnected-seeming events. Kaprow described a "Happening" as an "assemblage of... Read full biography
Working in mulit-medias and multi modernist styles, Lucas Samaras is both artist and theoretician who regards his life as an art object. In his work, he has combined Performance Art, and many forms of abstraction including post-Dadaism, post-Surrealism, and post-Abstract Expressionism. In 1959, Samaras took part in the earliest "Happenings" led by Allan Kaprow, in which the audience participated with the artist in disconnected-seeming events. Kaprow described a "Happening" as an "assemblage of events" (Atkins 103). Samaras has created assemblage figures and textured boxes from pins, nails, screws, cloth and plaster as well as erotic-seeming forms from wood, pins and rope. Of these objects Samaras has said that he felt he could rescue... Read full biography
Working in mulit-medias and multi modernist styles, Lucas Samaras is both artist and theoretician who regards his life as an art object. In his work, he has combined Performance Art, and many forms of abstraction including post-Dadaism, post-Surrealism, and post-Abstract Expressionism. In 1959, Samaras took part in the earliest "Happenings" led by Allan Kaprow, in which the audience participated with the artist in disconnected-seeming events. Kaprow described a "Happening" as an "assemblage of events" (Atkins 103). Samaras has created assemblage figures and textured boxes from pins, nails, screws, cloth and plaster as well as erotic-seeming forms from wood, pins and rope. Of these objects Samaras has said that he felt he could rescue ruined and useless things and give them dignity. He often inserts photos of himself, and as his career has progressed. he has... Read full biography
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- Review of ExhibitionsFebruary 2007EditorsArt in America
- Life Like ArtAugust 2006Griffin, TimARTFORUM
- Review of ExhibitionsJanuary 2006Editors, Art in AmericaArt in America
- Current EventNovember 2004Pollack, BarbaraArt & Auction
- From Tortured Youth to Enchanted SaSeptember 2004Taylor, SueArt in America
- Art MarketMay 2004Editors, ARTnewsARTnews
- ReviewsMarch 2004Editors, ArtforumARTFORUM
- Unrepentent Ego: The Self-PortraitsMarch 2004Pollack, BarbaraARTnews
- Closer Look-Irresistible MeMarch 2004Spike, John TArt & Antiques
- To Thine Own Selves Be TrueNovember 2003Yablonsky, LindaARTnews
- Review of ExhibitionsApril 2002Editors, Art in AmericaArt in America
- ExhibitionJanuary 2002Editor, Art-TalkArt-Talk
- Odyssues's ProgenySeptember 2000Kalina, RichardArt in America
- ReviewsAugust 1999Editors, ARTNewsARTnews
- Review of ExhibitionsJune 1999Editors, Art in AmericaArt in America
- ReviewsFebruary 1997Editors, Art NewsARTnews
- In the GalleriesOctober 1996Editors, Art & AuctionArt & Auction
- Birds, Beads & BannerstonesAugust 1996Diehl, CarolARTnews
- ReviewsMarch 1995Editors, Art NewsARTnews
- Lucas SamarasFebruary 1995Wakefield, NevilleARTFORUM