Photo Transformation, August 5, 1976 SX 70 Polaroid, 3 x 3 inches Lucas Samaras Lucas Samaras's photographs and mixed media drawings have been selected from several of his many series. Samaras has been the subject of much of his work since the 50's and is described by Donald Kuspit in his essay for "Unrepentant Ego - the self-portraits of Lucas Samaras", published on the occasion of his 2003-2004 Whitney exhibition by the same title, as "an Old Modern Master, the last of the authentic avant-garde masters, for his art, like no other today, reveals the unlimited freedom, depth, breadth, wealth of possibilities - profound and ceaseless creativity and experimentation...". Mr. Samaras was born in the small town of Kastoria in Macedonia, Greece, moved to New York in 1948, and graduated from Rutgers University College of Arts and Sciences in 1959. He began exhibiting his pastel and paintings while still in college and today is in the collections of many museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. Exhibition: October 21 - November 27, 2004 Gallery hours: Tue-Fri 10:30am - 5:30pm, Sat 11am - 5pm Rena Bransten Gallery 77 Geary Street (between Kearny and Grant Streets) USA-San Francisco, CA 94108 Telephone +1 415 982-3292 Fax +1 415 982-1807 Email info@renabranstengallery.com www.renabranstengallery.com |
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