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The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
Samantha
Inman
UNITED STATES
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“Although new to the professional fine art world, I’m not new to art in all its forms.”
Samantha Inman is a self-taught abstract-expressionist artist. She dabbles in a variety of mediums, from sketch to oil and watercolor, however, her main medium choice is acrylic on canvas.
42 is inspired by the idea of order and chaos in colors and how they interact with each other.
Jackson Pollock is the main influence in much of her current work as can be seen in her action painting and "splatter" effect. Her expressionism reflects more of a perspective versus the truthful reality.
HH-24 is an Abstract-Expressionism piece painted in hues inspired by the galactic phenomena of the same designation in the Hubble Telescope photographic archive. The piece got its additional texture with an iridescent to simulate the stardust in the galaxy and is stitched with metallic thread.
Samantha's identifying style involves the work of stitching the canvases back together and is a metaphor for a number of things that she wants to have her audience contemplate. This is why she also doesn't name, but rather numbers, a large portion of her current work.
I want to create a style of art that is unique in the art world, but forming that concept was a journey in and of itself.
Samantha graduated Cum Laude from California State University San Bernardino with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts. She continues to pursue her passion for creating with art, acting, and photography. When not actively working in one form, she can be found working in another.
“I prefer the audience to see what they see and feel in that given moment, to be present with the art and not necessarily see through my eyes.”
Her work in photography has been seen in galleries across the United States and in Athens' Blank Wall Gallery in multiple exhibitions. She has also been awarded a Social Conscious Award from Contemporary Art Gallery Online, was in the top 75 photos with Camelback Gallery, and is a three-time participant of the Chania International Photography Festival.
1190 is inspired by the textures and colors of metal and what neon looks like on metallic hues.
"I am a self-taught artist and I have learned art by dabbling in a range of mediums."
This piece is inspired by the sunset and the halo effect on a clear twilight or sunset when you can see the colors all around the horizon.
Inman taught herself from a young age to paint and sketch and quickly took to the different mediums and experimented for many years in an ongoing learning curve. She continues to read many art books and studies many artists to teach herself everything from one and two-point perspectives to depth in color theory.
This piece is named after the Pantone hues for metallic copper and gold. It is inspired by the contrast and texture between matte black and metallic hues. It is the companion piece to 873-877.
While in her teens Samantha briefly studied under the watercolor artist, Helen Veatch, while painting her first wall mural in acrylic at the age of thirteen. She experimented with her first unique work in her late teens and knew she had found her niche. This piece is 1010. This was the first of her style within abstract expressionism. It's a self-described whimsical mix of abstract chunks of canvas stuck together with expressions in hand-stitched purpose and the meaning is left to the individual viewer.
This piece is named after the Pantone hues for metallic silver and bronze. It is a companion piece to 872-876 and is inspired by the contrast and texture between matte black and metallic hues.
That being said, from a distance, her work appears whole and uncut, but up close, the stitchwork comes into focus. This is a metaphor seen in her current body of work and a reminder, that like life, a big picture can be seen from a distance or even in hindsight, but when you are in the thick of it, life feels as though it is ripping you apart and stitching you together without anesthesia.
This piece is a different perspective on what it means to be a black-and-white art piece.
"I know that if my work is titled, then it is a view through my perspective."
This piece is meant to be a different perspective on what it means to be a colored art piece.
Her works in other aspects of the arts have influenced and inspired different elements in her work with abstract-expressionism acrylic painting. It can be seen in Night / Day as a lens flare painted into the sun's rays of light.
This piece is a perspective of what night and day might look like in the same space or two different perspectives of night and day. The lens flare is a choice as though you are looking through the lens of a camera with the artist.
Samantha Inman is at the early stage of her life as an artist and hopes for her work to be enjoyed all over the world. She will continue to practice her craft in her passion for the arts.
This piece is a perspective of the view of the moon and the sun, and the concept behind it is that humanity can't live without one or the other but survives and thrives with both.