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Art Institute of Chicago, AIC
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603-6110
Chicago, IL 60603-6110
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Museums page for Lucas Samaras ((1936 - 2024)), known for Multi-media, modernist figure, collage-assemblage, happenings. Showing 15 museum collections and exhibitions.
Lucas Samaras MUSEUMS
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
Lucas Samaras - Artist Info
About Lucas Samaras: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (15)
All MuseumsBuffalo AKG Art Museum
1285 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
University of Miami
1301 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611-2604Neuberger Museum of Art
Suny, Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577-1400Saint Louis Art Museum
Forest Park
One Fine Arts Drive
St. Louis, MO 63110San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103Smith College Museum of Art
20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01063The Columbus Museum (COMU)
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014