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The artist Sam Linguist was raised in the small town of Waxahachie, Texas, where he spent his teenage ye-ars working at Webb Gallery, a space dedicated to the cosmic explosions and Surrealist fantasies of visionary artists, often self-taught or excluded from the mainstre-am—the gallery itself far-removed from prevailing Ame-rican art centers. There, he encountered figures like San-ford Darling, Royal Robertson, and Burgess Dulaney whose works in clay, paint, marker, and glitter, revealed new hallucinatory worlds. This idiosyncratic personal mythology plays itself out in an art practice that affirms a devotion to handmade objects, enigmatic private dre-amscapes, and exuberant traces of the everyday, which Linguist conveys on wobbly slip cast surfaces made by hand or formed from found items spanning domino tiles and turtle shells to Styrofoam and hardcover books. Poi-sed between sculpture and painting, Linguist transfigu-res the ordinary material of clay into poetic and impro-visational…
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The artist Sam Linguist was raised in the small town of Waxahachie, Texas, where he spent his teenage ye-ars working at Webb Gallery, a space dedicated to the cosmic explosions and Surrealist fantasies of visionary artists, often self-taught or excluded from the mainstre-am—the gallery itself far-removed from prevailing Ame-rican art centers. There, he encountered figures like San-ford Darling, Royal Robertson, and Burgess Dulaney whose works in clay, paint, marker, and glitter, revealed new hallucinatory worlds. This idiosyncratic personal mythology plays itself out in an art practice that affirms a devotion to handmade objects, enigmatic private dre-amscapes, and exuberant traces of the everyday, which Linguist conveys on wobbly slip cast surfaces made by hand or formed from found items spanning domino tiles and turtle shells to Styrofoam and hardcover books. Poi-sed between sculpture and painting, Linguist transfigu-res the ordinary material of clay into poetic and impro-visational…
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