Sam falls artist biography
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Sam Falls works intimately with the core precepts of photography –namely time, representation, and exposure – to create works that both bridge the gap between various artistic mediums and the divide between the artist, object, and viewer. Working symbiotically with nature and the elements, Falls's artworks are engrained with a sense of place indexical to the unique environment of their creation while imbued with a universal sense of mortality. With a reverence toward art history, Falls empathetically blurs the lines between artistic genres and practices, from modern dance and minimalist painting to conceptual photography and land art, boiling it down to the fundamentals of nature and the transience of life that art best addresses.
Sam Falls (b. ) was raised in Vermont and lives and works in New York's Hudson Valley. He received his BA from Reed College in and his MFA from ICP-Bard in He has had exhibitions at Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
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ABOUT SAM FALLS
Concerned with the intimacy of time, the bild of place, and utforskning of mortality, Sam Falls (born in San Diego, California) has created his own formal language bygd intertwining photography’s core parameters of time and exposure with natur and her elements. Working largely outdoors with vernacular materials and nature as a site specific subject, Falls abandons mechanical reproduction in favor of a more symbiotic relationship between subject and object. In doing so, he bridges the gap between photography, sculpture, and painting, as well as the divide between artist, object, and viewer.
Recent solo exhibitions bygd Sam Falls include MOCA Cleveland, OH, US (); Mori Museum in Tokyo, JP (); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US (); Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Trento and Rovereto, IT (); The Kitchen, New York, NY, US (); Ballroom Marfa, Texas, TX, US (); Pomona College Museum of Art, CA, US (); Public Art Fund, New York, NY, US (); and LA