Samantha Bares
Samantha Bares grew up in Nederland, Texas. Her artist father got her interested in art at a young age, and her mother, of Cuban and Mexcian descent, encouraged this practice all throughout her life. After receiving her BFA in printmaking from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2018, Samantha is now pursuing a graduate degree with a concentration in printmaking at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the SGCI Print Archives, the University of Utah’s Art Department Collection, the Jerry Crail Johnson’s Earth Sciences and Map Library at CU Boulder, and the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock,Texas.
My work brings in fragments of imagery from my own lived experience, the experiences of my family, dreams, fairytales and folklore to construct representational narratives. I am interested in constructing environments that contain a complex amalgamation of emotions brought on by the actions of the figures that inhabit it. I often use fiction as a starting point in order to address my own anxieties and reflections regarding the world.
In order of appearance
1.) "Decade Apart" - Lithograph
2.) "Your Certainty, It Swallows Me" - Screenprint
3.) Untitled - Drawing