poster for Sam Still Exhibition

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287 Spring is honored to present the first solo New York exhibition of Sam Still, an artist who makes small and large format burnished black ink drawings. Methodically applying layer after layer of brushstrokes on rag paper, Sam incorporates meditative qualities of calligraphy into his art. The abstract shapes, with their obsessively calculated edges and radii, provide stark contrast to subtle variations in the color and texture. Engaged in a prolonged dialog with each other and with the viewer, the drawings can be seen as studies in the dichotomy of an object and the process of its creation.

Sam Still explains: “My pleasure is the rigor involved in the creation of these drawings. The burnishing with an agate stone, the layers of ink built up over time through a repetitive process akin to meditation, losing myself, transported to an ambiguous world of thought, memory, and instinct. They are a gathering place for all of my emotions, the ones I act on and the ones I don’t or can’t or won’t act on.”

In the art world inundated with vapid commercial glitz, Sam has courageously embraced pure minimalist abstraction, pioneered by Kazimir Malevich and cultivated by Ad Reinhardt. These works are a result of profound meditation and stellar craftsmanship, a pleasure and a provocation for the eye and the mind.

Sam Still is an American artist whose works are included in such notable collections as J.P. Morgan Chase (New York), New Orleans Museum of Art, and Pacific Gas & Electric (San Francisco).

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from March 29, 2013 to May 10, 2013

Opening Reception on 2013-04-05 from 18:00 to 21:00

Artist(s)

Sam Still

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