Sam reveles biography

Biography.
Currently lives and works between El Paso, Texas and Ireland.
Reveles attended UCLA School of Art and Design and completed his B.F.A.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Regen Projects
629 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90069
Tel.: (310) 276-5424
Fax.: (310) 276-7430

SAM REVELES: PAINTINGS
May 8th, 1993 - June 5th, 1993
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 to 6:00
at Regen Projects

Regen Projects is pleased to announce the first one-person exhibition of paintings in the U.S. by New York artist Sam Reveles. Thirty-four year old Reveles was born in El Paso and received his M.F.A. in painting from Yale University. The paintings on view, some of which are from the “Codex: Frontera” series, are monochromes informed by Reveles’ history growing up on the Mexican-American border as well as recent travels through Mexico. The border serves as a hinterland wasteland that evokes an ancient history out of sync with current affairs. The paintings are constructed of lines as a journey, with definitive starting and ending points that erase any notion of time or geography in between. The lines converge and meld together, as a frontier is often an invisible line separating two countries and a demarcation of the displacement and non-assimil

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Currently lives and works between El Paso, Texas and Ireland.

Born

1958 El Paso, TX

Education

1987 Yale School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, M.F.A.
1985 University of Texas at El Paso, TX, B.F.A.
1981 UCLA School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2018 The Impossibility of Measuring Our Connectivity : New Paintings and Drawings, Talley Dunn Gallery,
Dallas, TX

2017 The Impossibility of Measuring Our Connectivity : New Paintings and Drawings, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation,
Ballycastle, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2016 The Impossibility of Measuring Our Connectivity, The Armory Show: Pier 94, New York, NY

2015 Iarnród Drawings, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX

2013 Aran: New Paintings and

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PRESS RELEASE

Sam Reveles: one journey fourteen stations

28 September – 29 October 1999

Artist reception: Tuesday, 28 September, 6 to 8 pm

Anthony Meier Fine Arts is pleased to present new work by artist Sam Reveles. Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, Reveles now lives and works in New York City. The exhibition will include paintings and drawings.

A sense of duality pervades Reveles’s work. The central focus in his exhibition is a series of fourteen drawings called The Stations of the Cross. Each drawing in the Stations series is based on a different Renaissance artists interpretation of Christ’s passage to His crucifixion. Emulating the style and figurative characteristics of a given artist, Reveles then paints in his own abstract style over the drawing. Employing a broad brushstroke and many layers, Reveles creates a striking intensity of color and depth. he drawing underneath only hints through on edges, lending a mystery to the work and creating an eye game with the viewer.