sam falls
Sam Fall’s work is largely concerned with contemporary Western ideology relative to nature and the individual. Formally he returns to persisting notions of melancholy and nostalgia via domestic representations of nature in such items as wallpaper and fabric, as well as people in their surrounding environments. He supplements his portrait and landscape photography with a strong studio practice indebted mainly to painting and collage. In these specific pieces he works with traditional color printing processes to produce an overarching formal scheme which points to the loss of memory and fleetingness of time. His work is primarily large and medium format color film, as well as installation and video.
Born 1984, San Diego, California
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Education
2007 BA, Reed College, Portland OR, Art
2011 MFA, ICP-Bard, New York NY, Photography (in progress)
Solo Exhibitions
2008
No Elegy, UnionDocs Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007
Houseface, Heather’s, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2008
Essentiality, Lana Santorelli Gallery, New York, NY
Father, Son, Godson, Shackleton Gallery, Bridgewater, VT
MasterMythBation, Roodkapje Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland
2007
Thesis Exhibition, Reed College, Portland, OR
Recent Graduates Show, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
Art in the Dark, Darkside Gallery, Killington, VT
Books
2008 We Are All Here Now:Presence in Contemporary Photography and New Media
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Publishing
2008 No Elegy
Self-published
2008 Portraits
Self-published
