CLAUDIA SAMPER
About the Artist
Claudia Samper’s work explores the perception of our urban landscapes through the interaction of people, nature, and buildings, often using birds as a metaphor. She starts an artwork with an idea and a plan followed by impulse and intuition-led creation. Samper’s focus on the re-interpretation and re-arrangement of objects and images creates a new reality or appearance and formulates a dialogue. In particular, she blends organic shapes and curved lines with geometric configurations, mimicking a reality where habitable and collective spaces fuse with nature. She puts emphasis on opposite pairs, including color/monotone, opaqueness/transparency, and softness/hardness. Her goal is to establish a space to stimulate the viewer and any feelings, thoughts, or wonder.
Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Samper moved to the United States with her family and settled in Virginia. She holds a degree in architecture and was trained as a graphic designer. But after being involved in the design field for many years, her interest went beyond that into fine arts. Samper’s work has been displayed in the Embassy of Argentina, Washington, DC, Consulate of Argentina, New York, NY, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ, Aljira Contemporary Art Center, Newark, NJ, and several art galleries throughout the US and in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area.
More about Claudia’s work can be found at claudiasamper.com.
Her most recent solo exhibitons at Touchstone include:
Bright Morning in the Meadows Walkway, Acrylic and pastels on canvas, 36” X 36”
Flying Together, Acrylic and pastels on canvas, 40” x 30”
Urban Nest #1, Four layered work. Oil birds and graphite on three layers of paper board. Ink on mylar cut-out paper and color paper on board, artwork 12” x 12” - framed 20” x 20”
Morning Espresso, 47” x 34”
House of Cards, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 20” x 20”
Already There, Acrylic and pastels on canvas, 30” x 30”