Lucas Samaras
Greek
(born 1936)
Born in Greece, Lucas Samaras attended Rutgers University and Columbia University, where he studied art history under Meyer Shapiro. He taught at Brooklyn College in New York.
He is a photographer, sculptor, painter, draftsman, and performance artist. Working in both expressionist and surrealist traditions, Samaras believes in the object as a vehicle for self-expression. Further, much of Samaras's oeuvre is a meditation on himself -- his own face and body are persistent themes in his work.