Lucas Samaras

Lucas Samaras is an artist who was born in Kastoria, Greece. He studied at Rutgers University on a scholarship, where he met Allan Kaprow and George Segal. He participated in Kaprows Happenings, and posed for Segals plaster sculptures. Claes Oldenburg, in whose Happenings he also participated, later referred to Samaras as one of the New Jersey school, which also included Kaprow, Segal, George Brecht, Robert Whitman, Robert Watts, Geoffrey Hendricks and Roy Lichtenstein. Samaras previously worked in painting, sculpture, and performance art, before beginning work in photography. He subsequently constructed room environments that contained elements from his own personal history. His AutoInterviews were a series of text works that were selfinvestigatory interviews. The primary subject of his photographic work is his own selfimage, generally distorted and mutilated. He has worked with multimedia collages, and by manipulating the wet dyes in Polaroid photographic film to create what he call

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