Mirrors, Polaroids, and Pixels: Lucas Samaras Never Stood Still
Lucas Samaras, born in Greece and shaped by New York’s restless art scene, turned self-portraiture into a playground of invention. From the 1960s onward, he sidestepped easy labels, shifting from mirrored installations that bent reality to Polaroid experiments that fractured the familiar. His early days with the Happenings movement linked him to creative mavericks like Claes Oldenburg and Jim Dine, fueling his appetite for the unexpected.
Samaras’s “Poses” series transformed friends and fellow artists into vibrant, distorted icons, while his later digital works—some minted as NFTs—proved he was always one step ahead of the curve. His art lives on in major museums, and a forthcoming Dia Beacon show will spotlight his geometric sculptures. In every medium, Samaras made reinvention his signature, reminding us that art, like identity, is never fixed in place.
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