Untitled

Sam Moyer is an emerging artist who earned a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and an MFA from the Yale School of Art; she has worked in various mediums including photography, painting, and sculpture. This painting is one from a series in which she dyed large pieces of canvas with India ink, then folded and creased them before letting them dry out-of-doors. Aspects like heat, rain, the nature of the ground on which the canvas was placed, and the speed at which the ink dried all effected the final appearance. Once dry, the artist identified compositions within the larger canvas, cutting them out and mounting them. The abstract marks made on the canvas intermingle with actual creases and folds in the fabric, layering textures and increasing the sense of illusion within the compositions.