Lucas Samaras: Flowers

Multimedia artist Lucas Samaras has been creating psychedelic digital distortions of flowers since the early 1960s. This volume, published by Pace Gallery, focuses on his work with 110 color images of flora in gardens, sidewalks, landfills, and abstract backgrounds.

Format: Hardback
Length: 220 pages
Publication date: 29 February 2024
Publisher: Pace Publishing

Since the early 1960s, multimedia artist Lucas Samaras (born 1936) has been tirelessly working across various mediums to push the boundaries of a Surrealist idiom that breaks away from the conventions of Abstract Expressionism and Pop art. Throughout the years, his profound fascination with self-representation and object transformation has expanded to encompass explorations in photography and, starting in 1996, when he acquired his first computer, digital art. This captivating volume, meticulously conceived and brought to life by Pace Gallery, serves to narrow the focus of Samaras' remarkable oeuvre, centering on his mesmerizing psychedelic digital distortions of flowers. Comprising a total of 110 vibrant color images, this collection showcases a diverse range of flora, captured in gardens, along sidewalks, in landfills, or even superimposed onto kaleidoscopic abstract backgrounds. When viewed together, these augmented images form an intriguing and captivating component of Samaras' most recent artistic endeavors.

Dimension: 254 x 279 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781948701662