SAMOS

SAMOS FINE ART

ABSTRACTION IS AN ART ALL IN ITS OWN.

NOT TO BE UNDERSTOOD BUT APPRECIATED.

FOR ME IT COMES FROM DEEP DOWN, FROM THE

HEART AND SOUL. IT IS MY WAY OF EXPRESSING

MY EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS. THE BRUSH IS MY VOICE.

THE PAINT ARE MY WORDS.

COLOR, DEPTH, SPACE, COMPOSITION

-THEY JUST APPEAR.~SAMOS

I spent most of my secondary education in the art room.

Any spare time that I had I was drawing, painting, or sculpting.

Not much has changed over the years. After high school I went

off to college. Gave it a shot and decided it wasn't for me.

So I took off for the Bering Sea to become a commercial fisherman.

I fished for about five years. After a knee injury I decided I was ready

for school again. This time I knew what I wanted to do. Study art.

I wanted to know everything there was to know. And so began the

rebirth of my art. I work in three different mediums. I paint original

abstract paintings on canvas using a brush and palette knife. I work

mostly in oils, but am branching out with acrylics and mixed medias.

I also create abstract figurative bronze sculptures in a female form.

I use line and texture as well as simplicity to convey my ideas. The

last of the mediums I like to work in is photography. While studying

abroad in Italy, I learned the skills of printing in the darkroom. With

education and the experience of running a local photo shop, I have

acquired a taste for the darkroom and all it has to offer. I hand process

images in my darkroom from time to time when I'm not in the studio

painting or sculpting.

Welcome to my world of art.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2007 	Discover			Paquette Art Gallery 				Salida, Co

	Nine Muses 		Planet Earth & the Four Directions Gallery		Grand Junction, CO

2002    	SOLO			Planet Earth & the Four DIrections Gallery		Grand Junction, CO

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 	Language of the Heart		Planet Earth & the Four Directions Gallery	Grand Junction, CO

2007	The Dark Show			Planet Earth & the Four Directions Gallery 	Grand Junction, CO

2006   	The Dark Show			Planet Earth & the Four Directions Gallery	 Grand Junction CO

2004 	The Dark Show 			Planet Earth & the Four Directions Gallery	Grand Junction CO

2002	This and That...Here and There 	Johnson Art Gallery				 Grand Junction CO

2002	18th Annual Art on the Corner   	Downtown				       	 Grand Junction CO

2001	Roaring Fork Open			 Aspen Art Museum				Aspen CO

	The Dark Show			 Planet Earth & the Four Directions Gallery	 Grand Junction CO

SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2006	Brush and Palette Member's Exhibit	Western Colorado Center for the Arts		Grand Junction CO

2002 	40th Fall Art Festival		Ramada Inn	 			Glenwood Springs CO

	42nd Annual Art Exhibit		Community Center				Ouray CO

	Mesa State Student Art Show		Western Colorado Center for the Arts		Grand Junction CO

INVITED EXHIBITIONS

2009       Florence Biennale                                                                                                     Florence, Italy

              Marziart Internationale Galerie                                                                                 Hamburg, Germany

2008       Carbondale Art on the Town                                                                                      Carbondale, CO
               Articipation                                                                                                               Salida, CO

2007	Florence Biennale		 					Florence, Italy 
	Brilliant Dimensions							San Antonio, TX 	
    	Boulder City First Public Artscape					Boulder City, NV

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