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Artist
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Private
Moments (detail) viscosity etching 36" x 9" |
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Invasive
Species (detail) Installation (dimensions
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Held by the Wind (detail) outdoor mural 38' x 62' |
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My
work is about man’s impact on nature and nature’s impact
on man.
I am a collector, a collector of new forms, textures, and patterns from nature. I am driven by curiosity and the joy of discovery. My process involves research, selection, sorting and documentation. I am researching the crevasses of nature looking for inspiration, excitement, new forms, and ultimately analogies to our own existence. Scientists order the world by dividing it into categories– genus and species. I spend hours digging through the stacks in reference libraries collecting the curious. Once collected, I categorize the images by a common factor - function, source, visual similarity or emotive quality. For example, I might create a set of elements/images which are used for protection - a golden rods microscopic spike, an armadillos platelets and a geodes crusty exterior. This piece looks at different means of defense and serves as an analogy for the ways people and societies protect themselves. Migration is a series of prints, which uses images of water, in all of its various forms, as a reflection of the emotions and vulnerabilities of the times. the Prints are about the nature of movement and change. They examine water as the source of life and a powerful natural force, a force able to pull, drag, toss, erode and create life, all at will. The viscosity technique is a process in which ink is mixed with varying degrees of oil and resists. The inks are then rolled on a copper plate that has been etched at several depths. Color range is achieved by using a mix of soft and hard rollers that allow the ink to be applied at different depths created by the etching process. Each piece projects a glow of subtle shapes and patterns reminisce of buried gems. Francesca Samsel is a printmaker, sculptor and muralist based
in New York City. She has a long international exhibition history
and her public art,- murals and sculpture, can be found from Arizona
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Resume |
Education: 1979-1981
Solo Exhibitions: 2005-2006 Winter Solstice IV The Studio/The Arts Exchange Armonk/White Plains NY Curator: Tedd Stratis 2005 Invasive Species Maryland Hall Center for the Arts Annapolis MD Outdoor Sculpture Installation-Mixed Media 2004 Liquid Thought Butler Gallery Marymount College of Fordham University Tarrytown NY 2004 Aqueous Citibank New York NY 2003 Migration The Studio Annex New York NY 2003 New York NY Public Art Commissions: 2002 Held by the Wind SEPTA Transit Authority Philadelphia PA 2001 1999 Season’s Walk
Selected Invitational Exhibitions: 2004 India Exchange galleries in six Indian cities 2004 E.Y.E. Convergence Studios New York NY 2004 Artists of E.Y.E. Pelham Art Center Pelham NY 2004 Wishing You Were Here Manhattan Graphics Center New York NY 2003 Scientific Impressions Davidson Galleries Seattle WA 2003 9/11 The New York Historical Society New York NY 2003 Etchings & Drawings Maryland Federation of Art Baltimore MD 2003 Winter Solstice II The Studio Armonk NY 2003 The Drawing Show The Arts Exchange Westchester Arts Council White Plains NY Public Art Commissions: 2002 Held by the Wind SEPTA Transit Authority Philadelphia PA 2001 1999 Season’s Walk Selected Grants: 2000 1998 Professional Activities: 2002-present Adjunct Faculty Fordham University NY
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