Unrepentant Ego: the Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras - New York - Whitney Museum of American Art - Brief Article

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART

A lot of isms have followed each other in American art over the past four-plus decades--the duration of Lucas Samaras's career--and I've yet to read anything that catalogued him permanently hi any one of them. His work is too individual and too various, but it manages the neat trick of suffusing its variety with its individuality: Samaras is always recognizably Samaras. Of course, he cheats a little: His individuality is often on show in the most literal way, in that his art is full of self-portraits. The Whitney show, curated by Maria Prather, is the first retrospective to focus on this aspect of his work. It will feature sculptures, drawings, paintings, and photographs, about 300 of them altogether, all self-reflective--"unrepentant ego" indeed. Nov. 13--Feb. 8.

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