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Andra Samelson is a multi-media artist whose work explores the way microcosm and macrocosm mirror each other. Her imagery is often associated with molecular and
galactic systems. In her recent paintings, she is en- gaged in bringing the instinctive and improvisational qualities of drawing to the process of painting. Using various tools, she draws into paint, spontaneously creating intersecting webs of linear markings. The biomorphic shapes and irregular gridded structures that emerge show the traces of their evolution. She is interested in abstraction that explores asymmetries, creating on unexpected pictorial space.
Originally from Denver, CO, Samelson currently lives and works in both New York City and Delhi, NY. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College, NY, and is a recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums both nationally and in- ternationally, and her public artwork, commissioned by New Jersey Transit, is perma- nently on view at the Hudson Bergen Light Rail’s Second Street Station in Hoboken, NJ. She has been a visiting artist at the University of Virginia and the ceramics fac- tory Ditta Grazia Majoliche Artistiche in Deruta, Italy. Her work has been reproduced and reviewed in The New York Times, Art Forum, New York Arts, New American Painting and elsewhere, and is represented in several private and public collections, including the Rubin Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, Chase Manhattan Bank, Dow Jones, and the Loyola University Museum of Art.
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