Dmitry Samarov’s new collages!
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
On view through Monday, January 29th
Due to the new Omicron variant, this exhibition will be by appointment only and runs from Saturday the 15th to Sunday the 29th!
Dmitry Samarov’s new collages!
Exhibition dates are from 1/15—1/29, by appointment! Please contact us at info@compoundyellow.com to make your appointment to see the show!
Dmitry Samarov—Collages
Faced with the plague outside his door, Samarov, a painter who’d worked for decades from outside in, looked into his past for subject-matter. Specifically, crates and drawers of old letters, homework assignments, failed or forgotten artwork, and varied ephemera. Ripping them up, gluing them back wrong, then scribbling all over the whole mess, Samarov is working out a personal visual lexicon unlike anything that came in his previous four decades of creative endeavor.
BIO
Dmitry Samarov was born in Moscow, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in 1st grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn’t stopped doodling since. After a false start at Parsons School of Design in New York, he graduated with a BFA in painting and printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993.
Upon graduation he promptly began driving a cab—first in Boston, then after a time, in Chicago— which eventually led to the publication of his illustrated work memoirs Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and Where To? A Hack Memoir (Curbside Splendor, 2014). Music to My Eyes (Tortoise Books, 2019) is his first non-cabbie-related book. Soviet Stamps (Pictures&Blather, 2020) is the second. All Hack (Pictures&Blather, 2020) is a summation of his cabbie-related work. Old Style (Pictures&Blather, 2021) is his first work of fiction. He has exhibited his work in all manner of bars, coffee shops, libraries, and even the odd gallery (when he’s really hard up .) He writes dog portraits and paints book reviews in Chicago, Illinois.
You can see more of his work than you’d ever want to at https://dmitrysamarov.com/.
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