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Sam Moyer (born 1983, Chicago, Illinois) is an American artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been positioned alongside that of artists Mika Tajima , R. H. Quaytman , Cheyney Thompson , and Helen Frankenthaler .
Sam Moyer (b. 1983, Chicago) received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, D.C., and her MFA from Yale University, New Haven. Inspired equally by nature and architecture, cinema and literature, Moyer has over the course of a fifteen-year career, produced a highly evocative body of work across a broad range of natural ...
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Sam Moyer holds a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, D.C. (2005) and an MFA from Yale School of Art (2007).
Moyer's early works foreshadow her longstanding concern with materiality, labour, and the production of painting. In her first solo exhibition Night Moves, held at Brooklyn's Cleopatra's in 2008, the artist showed sculptural paintings made from stretcher bars wrapped in mover's blankets. Moyer had come to notice the physical quality of the furnitur...
Over the years, Sam Moyer has departed from mover's blankets to incorporate slabs of stone and metal sheets into sculptural, wall-hung works that resemble paintings. In works such as Untitled (2012), she used ink and bleach on canvas to create various markings—wrinkled, straight, and rippling—shifting in colour from soft to dark grey. Pieces of mar...
Doors for Doris(2021), a sculpture commissioned by New York's Public Art Fund and named after its founder Doris C. Freedman, continues Moyer's exploration of form and materiality. For the tall monoliths reminiscent of her paintings, the artist sourced stone and marble from both New York and elsewhere, mirroring the city's vibrant and diverse cultur...
Selected solo exhibitions include Tone, Sean Kelly, New York (2021); Sam Moyer: Doors for Doris, Public Art Fund, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York (2020); Flowers, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles (2019); Sam Moyer: Many Moons, rodolphe janssen, Brussels (2018); and Brick Window, 56 Henry Gallery, New York (2017). Selected group exhibitions inc...
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Apr 24, 2021 · Virtual Exhibition Tour: Sean Kelly and Sam Moyer in conversation, March 18, 2021. Sam Moyer has produced a new body of work focused on connection and contemplation, exploring the boundaries of the 1:1 relationship between maker and material. These paintings and sculptures investigate a scale related to the body brought on by the deepened ...
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Sam Moyer is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in 2005 and her Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 2007. Moyer’s first solo exhibition was in 2008 at Cleopatra’s Gallery in Brooklyn, and it included work that incorporated moving blankets stretched like paintings onto stretcher ...
