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Andra SamelsonAndra Samelson, Pemarom, 2013-2022, 1300 + cds, Edition of 5, Abstract Sculpture2018
2018
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The word in Tibetan for lotus is “Pema.” In Buddhism the lotus is a symbol of purity. The lotus is planted and rooted in the mud, but grows up through the water and into the vast sky without any stain just as our mind is capable of transcending the murkiness and darkness of our suffering.
Andra Samelson decided to make this lotus out of CD’s since one day, as the sun came in her window at a particular angle, it landed on a CD lying on her table and a rainbow was reflected onto her wall. The petals of Pemarom, in its original scale, are created with more than thirteen hundred CDs whose ephemeral rainbow reflections of light change as the viewer moves around the artwork. The light creates an illusion of a three dimensional space, emphasizing the illusionary quality of all phenomena.
In Tibetan Buddhism, the term “Rainbow Body” refers to the realization of a great Master. It is not uncommon that at the death or cremation of a highly evolved realized practitioner, a multitude of rainbows appear in the sky, sometimes different sizes and shapes. This has been witnessed again and again.
In general a rainbow appears when certain elements such as moisture and light come together in a particular way, but the Rainbow Body does not depend on any outer elements but can manifest unimpeded in different places at once. Rainbow Body is without shadow; it is awareness without obscurations; it is omniscience; a rediscovery of the pure space what has always been primordially present.
Andra Samelson is a multi-media artist whose work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, the celestial and terrestrial. Originally from Denver, Colorado, Samelson currently lives and works in both New York City and Delhi, NY. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College and is a recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Samelson’s work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe and her public artwork, commissioned by New Jersey Transit, is permanently on view at the Hudson Bergen Light Rail’s Second Street Station in Hoboken, NJ.
She has been a visiting artist at the University of Virginia and the ceramics factory Ditta Grazia Majoliche Artistiche in Deruta, Italy and she has given talks about her work at NYU, Pratt Art Institute, PBS and Artists Talk on Art.
Her work has been reproduced and reviewed in the New York Times, Art Forum, New York Arts, New American Painting and elsewhere, and is represented in several private and public collections including the Rubin Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, Chase Manhattan Bank, Dow Jones, and the Loyola University Museum of Art.
Most recently the 9/11 Memorial Museum acquired two of her large scale paintings for their permanent collection.
Andra Samelson's "Pemarom" is available in an edition of 5, the first of which was acquired by Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago.
- Creator:Andra Samelson (American)
- Creation Year:2018
- Dimensions:Height: 96 in (243.84 cm)Diameter: 96 in (243.84 cm)
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- Condition:This is a site specific work of art, adapting dimensions to best complete the work in any given location with a flat floor and lighting available. The artist would be available to travel to specific sites to install this work at an additional fee.
- Gallery Location:Darien, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU17229949922
Andra Samelson
Andra Samelson is a multimedia artist and her prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture and installations have been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe. Samelson is a recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia and a visiting artist at the University of Virginia and the ceramics factory, Grazia Maioliche Artistiche in Deruta. Her work has been reproduced and reviewed in the New York Times, Artforum, New York Arts, New American Painting and elsewhere. Samelson's artwork is represented in several private and public collections, including the Rubin Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, Chase Manhattan Bank, Dow Jones and the Loyola University Museum of Art.
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