Previously exhibited artist Isabel Samaras, whom some of you may remember from her 2006 solo exhibition Ex Animo will be having a book signing event at the gallery for her newly released monograph On Tender Hooks this Saturday 9/19/2009, from 3—5pm.
On Tender Hooks — The Art of Isabel Samaras
Published by Chronicle Books in April, 2009
9-5/8″ x 10″ Hardcover
160 full-color pages
$35.00
On Tender Hooks — Isabel Samaras’s quirky, sexy, pop-surrealist art has had a cult following for years—and now at long last her first monograph, On Tender Hooks, is here. Drawing her influence from classic TV shows and paintings by the Old Masters—for example riffing on Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa by replacing the figures with characters from Gilligan’s Island—Samaras has created a witty, erotic, and surreal body of work. This fresh and dazzling volume includes a three-way interview between Samaras and fellow low-brow artists Shag and The Pizz, as well as delightful and enlightening commentary from gallerist Justin Giarla and art writer Colin Berry, and an erotic short story by Lucy Blue.
Artist Isabel Samaras’s work has been featured in numerous books, magazines, television shows, and a documentary film. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Blurb from The New York Times Blog—From painting homoerotic fantasies on vintage lunch boxes (The Lone Ranger and Tonto in flagrante) to bawdy television trays (starring Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock), Samaras went on to paint in oil on wood, using the techniques of the old masters to enliven the stuff of fairy tales.
