Recent Exhibitions and Portfolio
Above: "Democracy" Ink on Paper 2020 14" x 11"xhibition possible this year!
I am very pleased to be a part of The Fletcher Exhibit at the Reece Museum in Eastern Tennessee. My drawing above: "Democracy" is included in this show.This annual juried exhibition features social and politically engaged art from all over the world in memory of artist & designer Fletcher H. Dyer, a BFA Art and Design student who was passionate about the arts and creating a community of hope for all. Fletcher died tragically in 2009 before his last semester of undergraduate. The mandate "MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT TO PRESERVE OUR DEMOCRACY!" is highlighted this year. My drawing "Democracy" is featured in this exhibit which was also very hampered by Hurricane Milton but the show went on: Brava/o to all for that great effort that made this exhibition possible!
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I am very pleased to be a part of Transcending Bodies at the James Howe Galley on the Kean University Campus in Union, New Jersey in Summer/Fall of 2024. This was a major exhibition of my large oil and acrylic paintings created in large part before the Pandemic. Many of these works feature the female body in her experience of the complex, poignant and difficult circumstances that often surrounds her. Darkness and light often compete in these paintings along with the rugged journey forward. They are Other works featured in this exhibition include a series of Long Covid inspired paintings created during and after the Pandemic. They feature disconnected body parts and dark, ominous backgrounds. They allude to the devastation created by Long Covid as well as a wish to move beyond having a chronic illness. All of these works mentioned above are inspired by autobiographical moments.
Transcending Bodies
James Howe Gallery. Kean University. Union, NJ
Triada Samaras and Yasmeen Abdullah Summer/Fall 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Kean University Department of Fine Arts James Howe Gallery Vaughn Eames Building, Kean University 1000 Morris Ave. Union, NJ 07083 Phone: (908) 737-4400
Artworks by Yasmeen Abdallah and Triada Samaras Summer/Fall 2024 James Howe Gallery is proud to present an exhibition titled, “Transcending Bodies”: Installations by Yasmeen Abdallah and paintings by Triada Samaras. The exhibition is on display from Sunday, July 28 through Friday, September 6, 2024. An artist reception will be held on Thursday, September 5, 2024 from 3-6 pm at the gallery. All are welcome to attend.
Triada Samaras is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has been featured in numerous national and international exhibitions and venues. Samaras is a New England born, Greek-American who has family members living on both sides of the Atlantic. She has lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York for many years. For over 15 years, Samaras has been exploring the themes of identity, body, house/home, voice, and geography in her work, often in art activist contexts. The exhibition “Transcending Bodies” also features her paintings on the theme of Long Covid.
Yasmeen Abdallah is an interdisciplinary artist, working across intersections of sculpture, textiles, painting, and social engagement. Drawing from the personal and the political through elements of memory, empowerment, trauma, resilience, and persistence, her work takes shape in various capacities from minimal gestures to maximal installations. This work is inspired by contemporary culture, history, space, place and person hood. She is interested in the stories told, and secrets kept by imprints and objects that speak to our contemporary culture.
James Howe Gallery is located in the Vaughn Eames Gallery on campus.
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Plein Air Painting
The experience of being outdoors and beyond one's self: the exhilaration one feels immersed in a seemingly boundless outdoor environment inspires the paintings below. These works also express the physical act of painting which feels freeing and instinctual outdoors. Many of these plein air paintings were completed during summer in Maine where the sky, grass, water and land all seem to envelop and heal one's body. Illness and limitation due to Long Covid fades away as one is absorbed in light and sound.
Pine Point, 2022, acrylic on panel,, 16 x 20 inches
Casco Bay, 20223 oil on canvas,, 24 x 36 inches
Pine Point 1, 2022, acrylic on panel, 4 x 6 inches
Pine Point 4, 2022, acrylic on panel, 8 x 10 inches
Pine Point 7, 2022, acrylic on panel, 8 x 8 inches
Pine Point 10, 2022, acrylic on panel, 8 x 10 inches
Pine Point 13, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 8 x 10 inches
Pine Point 14, 2022, acrylic on canvas. 10 x 8 inches
Brooklyn 3, 2022, oil on panel, 6 x 4 inches
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Pine Point 2, 2022, acrylic on panel, 8 x 10 inches
Pine Point 6, 2022, acrylic on panel, 8 x 10 inches
Pine Point 5, 2022, acrylic on panel, 8 x 10 inches
Pine Point 8, 2022, acrylic on panel, 8 x 10 inches
Pine Point 11, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 8 x 10 inches
Pine Point 16, 2022, acrylic on panel, 11 x 14 inches
Brooklyn 1, 2022, oil on panel, 10 x 8 inches
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Pine Point 3, 2022, acrylic on panel, 6 x 8 inches
Pine Point 9, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 8 x 10 inches
Pine Point 12, 2022, acrylic on panel, 11 x 14 inches
Pine Point 15, 2022, acrylic on panel, 8 x 10 inches
Pine Point 17, 2022, acrylic on panel, 11 x 14 inches
Camp Ellis, 2022, oil on panel, 14 x 11 inches
Brooklyn 2, 2022, watercolor on homemade paper, 15 x 10 inches
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