%C2%A9 1962 Lucas Samaras %2F Pace Gallery. All rights reserved.
Dinner #2, 1962
Lucas Samarasexpand_more
Glass, plastic, nylon fabric, wine glass, and metal beadsexpand_more
Gift of Gordon Locksley and George Sheaexpand_more 77.47
Not on Viewexpand_more
Since the early 1960s, Lucas Samaras has made self-depiction the focal point of his practice. Active in painting, sculpture, assemblage, and performance art, Samaras has frequently invoked Surrealist-inspired motifs and ideas in his art, with many works possessing unnerving or even threatening qualities. Dinner #2 contains no human figure. But a human presence is strongly implied by the subject—a peculiar dinner setting. As viewers, we become involved in the work by our reaction to this unsavory-looking meal, a concoction of bent and broken bits of glass, plastic, and metal. “I’m never interested in ambiguous response,” Samaras has said. “Rather a positive negative . . . touch or not touch, the quality of seducing-repelling.”
Details
- Title
- Dinner #2
- Artist Life
- American (born Greece), born 1936
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 77.47
- Curator Approved
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