09/01/22 - 04/01/23
Partnerships, Portraits, and the Po...
Cleveland History Center
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Join artist Sam Falls for a talk about his work and upcoming exhibition at moCa Cleveland.
Presented in partnership with Cleveland Institute of Art's Reinberger Gallery
About the artist
Sam Falls works intimately with the core precepts of photography –namely time, representation, and exposure–to create works that both bridge the gap between various artistic mediums and the divide between the artist, object, and viewer. Working symbiotically with nature and the elements, Falls's artworks are engrained with a sense of place indexical to the unique environment of their creation while imbued with a universal sense of mortality. With a reverence toward art history, Falls empathetically blurs the lines between artistic genres and practices, from modern dance and minimalist painting to conceptual photography and land art, boiling it down to the fundamentals of nature and the transience of life that art best addresses.
Sam Falls (b. 1984) was raised in Vermont and lives and works in New York's Hudson Valley. He received his BA from Reed College in 2007 and his MFA from ICP-Bard in 2010. He has had solo exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Trento and Rovereto, Italy (2018); The Kitchen, New York (2015); Ballroom Marfa, Texas (2015); Pomona College Museum of Art (2014); Public Art Fund, New York (2014); and LAXART, Los Angeles (2013), among others. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2018); Le Consortium, Dijon (2017); Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio (2017); Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, England (2016); Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2015); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015); Menil Collection, Houston (2015); Museo MADRE, Naples (2014); and the International Center of Photography, New York (2013); among others.
February 03, 2023, 6:00PM - 10:00PM
MIX: Moonstruck
Cleveland Museum of Art
February 23, 2023, 5:00PM - 8:00PM
History on Tap: A Celebration of Black Culture
Cleveland History Center
September 08, 2022 - May 23, 2023
Dressed for the Job: Clevelanders in Uniform
Cleveland History Center
February 07, 2023, 12:00PM - 12:30PM
Lunchtime Lecture: Collaboration in the CMA’s African Art Galleries
Cleveland Museum of Art
January 27, 2023 - June 11, 2023
Sam Falls: We Are Dust and Shadow
moCa Cleveland
February 22, 2023, 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Amazing Amphibians
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
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