Yesterday was installation day (!) of my paintings at James Howe Gallery at Kean University. I will post info for this exhibit here soon. Here I am with Avery S. ( and BAS Fine Art Services) who thankfully helped me mount my works. #keanuniversity #keanart #triadasamaras
Triada Samaras Artist
What is an inter/trans-disciplinary artist? One who leaps from here to there and back again. One who can always see the big picture. One for whom the world is equally compelling and revolting, revealing and concealing. One who sees the personal and political, creative, social and environmental as often one, and for whom a single medium and point of view is never enough. Triada Samaras www.triadasamaras.com
Friday, July 26, 2024
Triada Samaras Paintings Exhibition at James Howe Gallery at Kean Univeristy
Yesterday was installation day (!) of my paintings at James Howe Gallery at Kean University. I will post info for this exhibit here soon. Here I am with Avery S. ( and BAS Fine Art Services) and Tino F. Cook who thankfully helped me mount my works. #keanuniversity #keanart #triadasamaras
Saturday, July 13, 2024
New Watercolor
This watercolor keeps morphing! It is a 22” x 30” sheet of very durable watercolor paper: (New York Central Watercolor Paper Sheets, 22x30 Inch, 140lb Cold Press, Pack of 10 - Professional Grade, Acid-Free, Archival - for Wet and Dry Media) , and there are some pastels now buried under the water color. The title is “Project 2025” and the painting changes as my hopes for America rise and fall daily.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Archival Giclee Prints of a Maine Plein Air Painting: "Pine Point." Artist: Triada Samaras. 2022
Pine Point, 2022
Acrylic on Panel
16 x 20 inches
Archival Giclee Fine Art Prints of Pine Point Painting
Signed, Limited Edition with Certificates of Authenticity
Fine Art Hahnemühle Paper and Archival Ink
24 x 30 inches, edition of 10, $750. (unframed)
16 x 20 inches, edition of 15, $450. (unframed)
12 x 15 inches, edition of 15, $250. (unframed)
8 x 10 inches, edition of 20, $120. (unframed)
Shipping and handling to be calculated
Additional sizes available upon request
Framing available upon request
To order a print:
Email triadasamaras@gmail.com
With subject line "Print Order"
Please include size, quantity, and your mailing address.
Once I receive your request I will ask for your payment via Venmo, Google Pay or Zelle.
The print will be shipped to the mailing address provided after payment is received.
triadasamaras@gmail.com
917-558-6157
Q&A About the Fine Art Printing Process
What is a Fine Art Print?
A fine art print is a reproduction or a copy of an artist’s original painting using a digital printing process with archival inks on fine art paper. Fine art printing is the term often used to refer to professional photographs being printed on very high quality paper. This designation, which is by no means a label, meets certain quality criteria, with regard to the paper and inks, which are sought after by many photographers and printers.
What is a Limited Edition?
Limited edition prints have been specifically created by the artist, and there are only a certain number available. The print often comes with a certificate, a number designating which exact pint it is within the total number of reproductions, and the artist's signature to show their authenticity. Read more about this
What is the difference between fine art paper and photo paper?
The difference between fine art paper and commercial photo paper lies in the composition of the paper itself. Natural fibers (usually cotton or alpha cellulose) must be included within the composition of fine art paper. The paper is not artificially bleached with chlorine or other chemicals that would break down the paper and the inks over time. Commercial photo paper is better for photos viewed on an occasional basis, whereas fine art paper will ensure that images are shown off in their best light and provides good performance in exhibitions. Because fine art paper is intended for the printing of high quality photographs, its quality must be ideally suited to receiving inks and pigments. The composition of the surface layer must allow the ink to adhere well over time, while offering a neutral pH to ensure that the paper also stands the test of time. Fine art paper will also allow you to emphasize the composition of the image by providing the ideal support for intense colours and marked contrasts, while also enabling a wide range of grey tones. Read more about this
What is archival ink?
Archival ink is specifically designed to be resistant to weathering and fading so that it will last for a long time. It is often used for scrap-booking and other activities where the written or drawn images need to be preserved indefinitely. To make the most of archival ink, it is best to use it in conjunction with archival paper, which is also made to resist weathering and fading. Read more about this
What is Hahnemühle Paper?
Hahnemühle paper is a fine art quality paper manufactured by Hahnemühle FineArt, Inc., a paper manufacturing company in the Relliehausen district of Dassel, Germany. Founded in 1584 it is a significant producer of coated paper for inkjet printing, artist's paper for traditional painting and printing techniques, and filter paper for industry and research. It is a highly regarded fine art paper used by many professional artists for its quality. Read more about this
What if I am unhappy with my print?
If for any reason you are not happy with the print, you can ship it back to me and I will refund your payment minus shipping charges.
En Plein Air in Maine: About the Pine Point Painting and Triada Samaras
This painting Pine Point is my largest to date in this series of "Plein Air" paintings this year. My focus is increasingly on the healing nature of the ocean: the vibrations and patterns of the wind, water and sky on the human body, especially in our moments of sickness and deepest sorrow. Have you ever been to the ocean to heal or grieve? I have done so many times. I have also been there to celebrate often.
The ocean is 'there' for us no matter how we feel, or what we need on any given day. It seems to listen to us and embrace our thoughts and dreams. Yet this reliable phenomenon is also a fragile eco-system, and in grave danger in our era of rapid climate change. Like our own bodies, we can not take its health for granted.
“Fish, amphibian, and reptile, warm-blooded bird and mammal-each of us carries in our veins a salty stream in which the elements sodium, potassium, and calcium are combined in almost the same proportions as in sea water.”
― Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us LINK
As an artist, I wish to love and honor the ocean that is so present for us freely and without question. I, for one, would feel completely lost without an ocean to contain my human self. How could I thrive without it? I do not see the way. For this reason I am using paint, which I like to call my "liquid light", canvas and wood panels, sustained personal observation outdoors (painting en plan air), and my imagination, electrified when I am on location, to express my gratitude to the sea, my old friend.
"It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”
― Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us. LINK
Triada Samaras Oct 11, 2022
Originally educated in Fine Art at Smith College, Northampton, and the Museum School of Fine Art in Boston, MA, Samaras has also completed graduate work in art, art education, and interdisciplinary art at Columbia University, New York, and Goddard College, Vermont. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Drawing and Fine Art at Kean University and Art and Art Education at William Paterson University.
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Triada Samaras: Back to Maine Paintings
In a few cases I have gone form plein air into the studio. Pine Point 10 below is one such case. I spent several days in the studio tweaking this painting. This paining is an exercise in color and texture.
Monday, August 15, 2022
Triada Samaras: Plein Air Paintings in Brooklyn, NY
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Triada Samaras "Unbound" at the Paterson Museum review by Mary Birmingham
After my solo exhibition "Unbound" at the Paterson Museum in 2019, I had intended to publish a catalogue. This piece of writing by Mary Birmingham, Curator, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, was intended for that purpose. The pandemic upended my plans. But I do want this piece of writing to be available to my readers and followers. Therefore I am featuring it below until the catalogue gets finally made. Triada Samaras August, 2022
In her solo exhibition, “Unbound,” Triada Samaras explores themes of personal
identity and transformation in vibrant paintings, sculptures, and works on paper.
Working intuitively, she approaches each new work as an inquiry with its own
unique energy. A multi-disciplinary artist, Samaras is also a poet, educator, and
community activist who addresses issues like housing, clean water, and land
use—especially as they relate to gentrification. Although she has frequently used
her socially engaged art to raise awareness and affect change, with this exhibition
she shifts her focus to the personal and turns her activist energy inward.
Comprising more than thirty works, the exhibition is a comprehensive and personal
exploration.
Incorporating iconic images of house, hand, and body, Samaras layers these forms
with words and lines from her poetry, giving viewers an intimate glimpse into her
journey toward self-actualization. In two small paintings, Bounded 1 and Bounded 2,
a windowless house with a tiny door fills almost the entire area of each painting, as
if it is about to burst out of its frame. This tension between constriction and
freedom is a recurring theme for Samaras.
A larger painting, Take Away, repeats the motif of the abstracted house, situating it behind a
figure with outstretched arms. Like many of the artist’s works, its meaning is ambiguous. Is the
figure embracing the house, or letting it go? Is she attached to the house or escaping its hold?
Within the outlined shape of the figure Samaras has superimposed lines from her
poetry—some words legible and others veiled in layers of paint: “The wind blows
through me / Bright light finds the empty spot in my mind.”
These lines or fragments of poetry appear in many other works in the exhibition. In
the ink drawing, Letting Go, an intricate network of lines and text covers the surface
of an outstretched hand, like an elaborate tattoo. A vortex of hand-written words
fills the background, repeating the lines quoted above. Samaras employs this open
hand image in several other works as she explores the dichotomy between grasping
and letting go. Reaching 1 also highlights the outstretched hand, placing it against a
dark background on which a fragment of the same line of poetry is painted. In the
exhibition’s most recent work, Emancipation, a disembodied hand reaches down
from within a light-filled grove of trees, releasing a pair of hand grenades. Bathed in
light, it is a powerful, surrealistic image.
If there is a signature work in the exhibition it could be the painting Unbound, in
which a seated woman seen from behind is silhouetted against a gold background,
like a religious icon. A forearm and hand extends from the area of her heart up into
her head, lending new meaning to the repeated line, “Bright light finds the empty
spot in my mind.” Loose spirals of rope and text loop around her body. Despite the
ambiguity of the image, its title implies a loosening of bonds and hints at liberation.
Uprising is yet another painting that brings together house, body, and poem, and can
be seen as a coda to Unbound. Red and blue houses set in an earth-toned space
create a backdrop for a yellow female figure that diagonally bisects the canvas from
top to bottom. This figure is covered with text that restates the simple message
from Samaras’s poem, “Bright light finds the empty space.” A series of blue roofs
lines up in a perfect diagonal behind the nude figure, their pointed peaks forming
arrows that direct our eyes upward along the outstretched body, emphasizing the
work’s dynamic composition. The elemental nature of the words and image is
underscored by the artist’s use of primary colors.
Looking deeply into Samaras’s abstracted forms, gestural brushwork, and
straightforward words, the viewer may detect a hint of hopefulness, despite their
darkness. The titles of the exhibition as well as the individual works hint at this
idea. With so much of the work expressing concepts of liberation and breaking free
and the belief that “light” will always find a home within us, the artist makes a good
argument for optimism. Like the figure in her painting, Uprising, Samaras’s work
ultimately leans toward hope. Viewed together, the works in “Unbound” release a
kind of energy that can also be described as “unbounded,” since it is limitless and
free of restraints or boundaries. We should celebrate this energy that is both timely
and timeless.
Mary Birmingham
Curator, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
Sunday, August 7, 2022
Triada Samaras Exhibits "Disconnect" at Riverfront Gallery / Audio File
Last night's opening at The Riverfront Gallery was awesome. Below I attach a link to an audio file I made about my acrylic painting: "Disconnect". Curator Haifa Bint-Kadi had a great idea with this idea for viewers getting to know the artists in front of their work (it was optional for individual artists). Viewers use a QR code reader to link to the audio file.
Audio link: http://qrco.de/bdCzBb?trackSharing=1
Or use a QR readwith the code below
Above: “Disconnect ”
Oil on Canvas. 24" x 48” Triada Samaras 2022
Deconstructed Anatomies
Riverfront Library: August 4 – October 21, 2022
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 4, 5:30-7:30 pm, in accordance with Gallery Hop Each Thursday
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Triada Samaras: Trying Out Watercolor
I tried out a new medium today as I vowed to myself that I would. And a new size. This is 12” x 18” and watercolor on paper. There’s a good reason no one ever said watercolor is easy! Kudos to all the watercolorists out there; this medium is unforgiving but fun. This is my backyard in Brooklyn with a little more sky. Who knew Brooklyn could look so pretty. I added a bit of oil pastel in the end.
Watercolor on Handmade Paper
18" x 12"
Monday, August 1, 2022
Triada Samaras Exhibiting Painting "Disconnect" at Riverfront Art Gallery
Hello I am pleased to announce my painting, Disconnect, is part of an exhibition called Deconstructed Anatomies at the Riverfront Art Gallery in Yonkers, New York.
Deconstructed Anatomies
Riverfront Library: August 4 – October 21, 2022
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 4, 5:30-7:30 pm, in accordance with Gallery Hop
Above: “Disconnect ”
Oil on Canvas. 24" x 48” Triada Samaras 2022
The Riverfront Art Gallery
is on the
Fourth Floor of the Yonkers Public Library at
1 Larkin Center, Yonkers, NY 10701
Featured Artists: Aiki, Annette Back, Shanequa Benitez, Alessandro Callegari, Lauren Camara, Rich Carthew, Susan Cooper, Elisabeth Faraone, Luis Fonseca, Julia Gagliardi, Will Hanlon, Susan Hoeltzel, Mark Jacobson, Jacqueline Lorieo, Daurius Martinez, Amanda Mauer, Shahaadah Morell, Robert Olsson, Kikito Rodriguez, Moses Ros, Sania Samad, Triada Samaras, Dennis Shelton, Beth Sutherland, Mitchell Visoky, Les Von Losberg
Please note this program is in person and is part of First Thursday Gallery Hop.
The Riverfront Art Gallery is located on the 4th floor of the Riverfront Library, the main branch of the Yonkers Public Library (3D model of gallery). The gallery exhibits contemporary, nationally and internationally acclaimed artwork. We also strive to promote the work of local artists. The mission of the gallery is to present a diverse and balanced schedule of exhibits of high caliber, progressive artwork and related programs not frequently seen in Yonkers and surrounding communities. Haifa Bint-Kadi is the curator for the gallery and schedules exhibits generally one year in advance. To contact the curator, email: haifa@ypl.org
Library Hours and Location
One Larkin Center
Yonkers, NY 10701
914-375-7940
HOURS
Monday-Wednesday: 9 AM - 8 PM
Thursday: 10 AM - 8 PM
Friday/Saturday: 10 AM - 5 PM