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Biography
Andra Samelson's work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, the celestial and terrestrial. Her imagery is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. She is interested in the movement of constellations with their regular and irregular orbits, charged particles and cells swimming under a microscope, and the electrochemical impulses in our complex brains.
In her recent paintings she is engaged in bringing the instinctive, immediate, and improvisational qualities of drawing to the process of painting. With various tools she draws into her paint, spontaneously creating a layered, linear matrix. The biomorphic forms that emerge show the traces of their evolution. She is drawn to asymmetries and irregularities that produce what is surprising and idiosyncratic.
Her lines make reference to visible and invisible pathways we travel in time, in memory and thought, and to all the interconnecting, multi-layered networks we traverse as they come together to make the momentary configurations and forms in our lives. Samelson is interested in the linear patterns in nature from the fabric of the smallest leaf to the invisible lines in the sky made by of planetary orbits and migratory routes
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Download Samelson CVLives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
MA, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
SELECTED SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022
Stellar Uncertainties, NAVA Contemporary, New York, NY/San Francisco, CA (solo)
2017
Crossing Lines, Morales/Samelson, Main Window, Brooklyn, NY
Bold and Beautiful, Victory Hall Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ (solo)
2015
Round About, Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Cosmologies, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
2010
Blown Away, Hudson Beach Glass Gallery, Beacon, NY
2009
Down to Earth, Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY
2005
Blue Prints, Domo Gallery, Summit, NJ (solo)
2003
Ephemeris, Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (solo)
2001
Hands On, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Vesak, United Nations, New York, NY (solo)SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
All in One, Anderson Contemporary, New York, NY
Entry Point, Nature’s Way, Odetta Gallery/Shim Art Network, New York, NY
Scribbles, Carter Burden Gallery, New York, NY
2022
Spinning Plates, ODETTA Digital/Shim Art Network, New York, NY
2021
The Earth is Blue like an Orange, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
Essential Works, Page Turner, Refresh ODETTA Digital/Shim Art Network, New York, NY
8 x 8 Art on Paper, Flatfile Gallery, New York, NY
Lost and Found: A Personal Vision, New York Artists Circle, New York, NY
2020
USPS Art Project, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NYTranscendental, ODETTA, New York, NY
Deep Blue See, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NYThe Blues, The Painting Center, New York , NYTrue Blue, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CTSea Change, Pandemic Proof, ODETTA Digital/Shim Art Network, New York, NY
2019
Bluebird of Happiness, Odetta Gallery, New York, NY
Lobster Dinner, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Atmospheric Perpective, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY
Among Friends, Abrazo Interno Gallery at the Clemente, New York, NY
Somewhere We Landed, Victory Hall Dining Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2018
Civil Discourse, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Relishing Restraint, Loft Artists Association, Stamford, CT
The Unity of Everything, Art Times Two, Princeton, NJ
The Big Small Show, Victory Hall Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2017
Color: Primary to Tertiary, Site Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Deck the Walls, National Arts Club, New York, NY
Priority Mail, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016
The BIG Small Show, Victory Hall Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
Introductions 2016, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
PPP: Painters Painting on Paper, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Mapping Spaces: Carte Blanche, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
Art Hillary, Kathyrn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
2015
LUMA at 10: Greatest Hits, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Correspondence, Westbeth Galleries, New York, NY
2014
FLUID, Newhouse Center for the Contemporary, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
2013
New Prints 2013/Winter, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
Silhouettes, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Gallery, New York, NY
New Prints 2013, Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2012
UNCOVERED: Prints. Selections from the Kentler Flat Files, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
Contemporary Mandalas: New Audiences, New Forms, Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2011
Marked Differences, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
The Missing Peace: Limited Editions, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
2010
The Last Book, Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland
What Matters Most, Exit Art, New York, NY
2009
Prayer Flags Around the World, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
The O Show, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont , NY
2008
Benefit Exhibition, Lower East Side Print Shop, New York, NY
The Last Book, National Library of Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007
Written on the Wind: The Flag Project, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
Limited Editions: The Missing Peace, Tibet House, New York City, NY
Pillow Talk, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006-10
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Traveling Exhibition to the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, the Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, The Rubin Museum of Art and the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, Emory Visual Arts Gallery Atlanta GA, Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco, CA. Hillside Terrace in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, Fundacion Canal, Madrid, Spain, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL, Nobel Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
2006
Night Lites, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CAMeditation for the Hand, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
The Missing Peace: Limited Editions, Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
Miami Bridge Art Fair Melanee Cooper Gallery Miami, FL
2005
Forces at Work, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RINew Prints 2005/Autumn, International Print Center NY, New York, NY
Affordable Art Fair, Laumont Editions, New York, NY
2004
Small Works, New York University, New York, NYMeditations in New York, Broadway Gallery, New York, NYEssence of Line, Concordia College Gallery, Bronxville, NYThree Artists, Wooster Arts Space, New York, NYThree Americans - Mapplethorpe, Samelson, Brzezinski, Art Now Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
2003
New Prints 2003/Spring, International Print Center NY, New York, NY
Look Up! Contemplating the Skies, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY
2002
New Prints 2002/ Autumn, International Print Center NY, New York, NYReactions, Exit Art, New York, NYBallpoint: Inklings, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MABIBLIOGRAPHY
2018
The Unity of Everything, The Slow Muse, Deborah Barlow
On Growth and Form, New York Artists Circle, Elizabeth Meade
Studio Visit, New York Artists Circle
The Next Step, Vasari 21, Ann Landi
2017
The BIG Small Show, Exhibition Catalog, Victory Hall Drawing Rooms
Bold and Beautiful, The Niew Art Blog, Bruce Halpin
Bamiyan Reborn, Levekunst Art of Life, December 20
2016
The BIG Small Show, Exhibition Catalog, Victory Hall Drawing Rooms
2013
Cosmologies, Exhibition Catalog, essay by Lilly Wei
2012
Buddhist Mysticism Rides the Cutting Edge in 'Contemporary Mandala' at
Emory's Visual Arts Gallery, ArtsCriticATL.com, Jerry Cullum
2011
Peace of Mind, San Antonio Museum Examiner, Kristian Jaime
Marked Differences, Kentler International Drawing Space, Roberta Waddell
2009
Here There and Everywhere: Anticipating the Future of Art, Trans Cultural Exchange
World Leaders should see the Frost Art Museum's Latest Exhibits, Miami New Times, Nov. 3, Carlos Suarez De Jesus
2007
The Flag Project, The Rubin Museum of Art
The Shambhala Sun
2006
Tips and Picks, New York Arts Magazine
Nighlites, Artweek, Annie Buckley
The Missing Peace-Artists Consider the Dalai Lama-Exhibition Catalog
The Missing Peace, Coagula Art Journal, S.A. DuTan
2005
New Prints/2005 Autumn, International Print Center NY, Nancy Princenthal
South County Independent, Forces of Nature, Doug Norris
2004
Meditation in New York, New York Arts, Lori Ortis
2003
Ephemeris, Exhibition Catalog, Daniel Baird
New Prints 2003/ Spring, International Print Center NY, Faye Hirsch
Look Up! Contemplating the Skies, Exhibition Catalog, Fred Moreno, Thomas Woodruff
2002
Boulevard, Volume 18
The Lure of Diversity, International Print Center NY, Marilyn Kushner
Bamiyan Reborn, The Art Newspaper, Martin Bailey
2001
New York Times, February 4, William Zimmer
Brooklyn Rail, Issue #43-44, Issue #45-46
Celebration 1991-2001, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park: Exhibition Catalog
Repetition in Discourse, Exhibition Catalog, Daniel BairdPUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2014
Wheel of Dharma, permanent installation-stained glass window, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
2004
Heaven On Earth, New Jersey Transit, Hudson Bergen Light Rail Second Street Station, Hoboken, NJAWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2003
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, Amherst, VA2000
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park Residency, Cazenovia, NY1999
Fellowship Award Winner, The New York Foundation for the Arts
Visiting Artist, Ditta G. Grazia and C., Majoliche Artistiche, Deruta, Italy1998
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, Amherst, VA1996
Finalist: National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation
The Corporation of Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, Amherst, VALECTURES AND INTERVIEWS
2017
Artist's Talk, Victory Hall Drawing Rooms
2013
Cosmologies, Loyola University Museum of Art2007
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, PBS
My Public Art Work, Sweet Briar CollegeBamiyan Reborn, Tibet HouseBamiyan: A Continuum, The Rubin Museum of Art
2005
Pratt Art Institute2003
Ephemeris, University of Virginia2002
New York University
William Paterson University2001
Pratt Art Institute2000
Ephemeris, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park
Yaddo CentennialCOLLECTIONS
Rubin Museum of ArtLoyola University Museum of ArtLibrary of CongressDow Jones CorporationPrudential Life InsuranceOmni InternationalSchawbel CorporationWhite and CaseOttaway NewspapersChase Manhattan Bank
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