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

(more about this painting)

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.

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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

 

Pine Point 

Acrylic on Canvas

16 x 20 inches

2022

c. Triada Samaras

To purchase prints of "Pine Point" click this LINK

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

Triada Samaras : Short BIO

For over 25 years Greek-American artist Triada Samaras has been exploring the themes of identity, house/home, voice, geography and democracy in her artwork and poetry, often in art activist and socially engaged contexts in New York City and Athens, Greece.  Her work has won her national and international recognition. Samaras is also a studio artist working in Brooklyn where she creates personal, intuitive, passionate and often visceral interpretations of these themes in paintings, drawings, sculptures, and poetry. Since 2021, Samaras has turned her attention exclusively to painting in oil and acrylic on canvas and on wood panels both in her studio and "en plein air" (outdoors).

Currently Triada Samaras is devoting all of her time to painting on wood panels and canvases outdoors and in her studio.

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.

For more information:

Triada Samaras: Artist BIO LINK

Triada Samaras: Artist Statement LINK

Triada Samaras: CV LINK

Contact Info:

Email: triadasamaras@gmail.com

Cell: 917-558-6157

Website: https://www.triadasamaras.com

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. 

Pine Point 10

Acrylic on Canvas

8 x 10 inches

c. Triada Samaras 2022

Available

Triada Samaras: Back to Maine Paintings

 

Triada Samaras: Plein Air Paintings in Brooklyn, NY

My backyard in Brooklyn is another beautiful spot to capture the wind, sky, trees and air. These are small, quickly done paintings with oil and watercolor.  I try to capture the gorgeous light and beauty of the spot.  This type of painting is highly addictive I must say.

Brooklyn 1

Oil on Wood

10" x 8"

Triada Samaras 2022

(Available)

Brooklyn 2

Watercolor on Handmade Paper

15" x 10"

Triada Samaras 2022

(Available)

Brooklyn 3

Oil on Wood

6" x 4"

Triada Samaras 2022

(Available)

Contact:  

email: triadasamaras@gmail.com

cell 917-5586157

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. 

Above: Take Away, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 62 inches

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

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

Artist Statement: 

My oil painting, Disconnect, is part of a recent series of paintings I am making in my studioinspired by my recent experiences with Long Covid.  Long Covid has essentially upended my life as well as artistic practices. As an artist I am interested in working through these 

changes creatively.

Triada Samaras 2022

Riverfront Art Gallery 

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

For more info see my blog post: LINK

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.

Above:  Oil on the left. Watercolor on the right.

Brooklyn Sky 2

Watercolor on Handmade Paper

18" x 12"

Triada Samaras 2022

(Available)

Contact:  

email: triadasamaras@gmail.com

cell 917-5586157

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

Artist Statement: 

My oil painting, Disconnect, is part of a recent series of paintings I am making in my studioinspired by my recent experiences with Long Covid.  Long Covid has essentially upended my life as well as artistic practices. As an artist I am interested in working through these 

changes creatively.

Triada Samaras 2022

The Riverfront Art Gallery 

is on the 

Fourth Floor of the Yonkers Public Library at 

1 Larkin Center, Yonkers, NY 10701

"This exhibit will showcase works that use the shared vocabulary of art and anatomy, but in deconstructed formats. We are looking on the inside and taking apart processes, anatomies, objects and machines. We have included a variety of sculpture, light installations, paintings and mixed-media."  LINK

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

Riverfront Library

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

Triada Samaras: Trying to paint en plein air in Brooklyn with Oil Paint

I tried something different yesterday which is oil paint and working outdoors! This is my backyard in Brooklyn. I’m still working mostly on wood. This piece is 10" x 8“ I’m still intending to go larger but I need to use up all the small pieces of wood first lol. It’s also nice to be experimenting at this stage on a smaller format before I go bigger.

Brooklyn 1

Oil on Wood

10" x 8"

Triada Samaras 2022

(Available)

Contact:  

email: triadasamaras@gmail.com

cell 917-5586157

Triada Samaras Exhibiting Painting "Disconnect 3" at Atelier Rosal

Above:  “Disconnect 3”

Oil on Canvas 18” x 24”

Triada Samaras 2022

in

“Figuration” Show at Atelier Rosal

Opening Friday July 29, 2022 at 5-8 PM. 

All invited.

74 East Cherry St. Rahway, NJ

Hours of operation: 

Tuesday by appointment, Weds-Sat 11am-6pm

Tel.  (848) 236-5027

Below:  Photographs from Opening Reception at Atelier Rosal