Sam Moyer: Subject to change
Sean Kelly is delighted to present Subject to change, Sam Moyer鈥檚 fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Featuring a dynamic body of new work, the exhibition features Moyer鈥檚 latest stone paintings, highlighting her distinctive combination of reclaimed stone and painted canvas, as well as oil on panel paintings and handmade paper works produced as artist in residence at Dieu Donn茅 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Sam Moyer鈥檚 works merge abstraction and materiality, redefining conventional sculptural forms through her innovative use of natural materials. Inlaying stone into canvas, she blurs the boundaries between painting and sculpture, creating wall-mounted works that emphasize variations in surface and light. In these new paintings, Moyer meditates on the dualities inherent in life鈥攖he coexistence of decay and growth, loss and perspective, endings and emergent beginnings. Reflecting on what she describes as a 鈥渂ifurcation in meaning,鈥� the works are born from trying times, capturing a moment of balance between extremities. Moyer describes these dualities in the work as, 鈥淭he bridge between early life and death, the transformative period between the decline of outdated systems and the emergence of new paradigms.鈥�
The palette of this body of work draws inspiration from Claude Monet鈥檚 late paintings. As Monet moved toward a purity of color and light in response to his waning eyesight, Moyer interprets this evolution as an investigation of the essential, a filtering that reduces visual language to its core elements. Through her unique approach, Moyer continues this exploration, using color and light as the fundamental building blocks of abstraction.
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Sean Kelly is delighted to present Subject to change, Sam Moyer鈥檚 fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Featuring a dynamic body of new work, the exhibition features Moyer鈥檚 latest stone paintings, highlighting her distinctive combination of reclaimed stone and painted canvas, as well as oil on panel paintings and handmade paper works produced as artist in residence at Dieu Donn茅 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Sam Moyer鈥檚 works merge abstraction and materiality, redefining conventional sculptural forms through her innovative use of natural materials. Inlaying stone into canvas, she blurs the boundaries between painting and sculpture, creating wall-mounted works that emphasize variations in surface and light. In these new paintings, Moyer meditates on the dualities inherent in life鈥攖he coexistence of decay and growth, loss and perspective, endings and emergent beginnings. Reflecting on what she describes as a 鈥渂ifurcation in meaning,鈥� the works are born from trying times, capturing a moment of balance between extremities. Moyer describes these dualities in the work as, 鈥淭he bridge between early life and death, the transformative period between the decline of outdated systems and the emergence of new paradigms.鈥�
The palette of this body of work draws inspiration from Claude Monet鈥檚 late paintings. As Monet moved toward a purity of color and light in response to his waning eyesight, Moyer interprets this evolution as an investigation of the essential, a filtering that reduces visual language to its core elements. Through her unique approach, Moyer continues this exploration, using color and light as the fundamental building blocks of abstraction.
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