Reconstruction #33 (Primary Title)
Lucas Samaras, American, born Greece, 1936–2024 (Artist)
Lucas Samaras worked across a variety of mediums and genres during his long career, including assemblage sculpture and photography. In the 1970s he began his Reconstruction series, in which he sewed together geometric-shaped fabric strips, forming abstract compositions with a sewing machine. In works such as Reconstruction #33, he fused the tradition of quilting with the aesthetic styles of 20th-century movements such as Russian Suprematist painting. Like the Pattern and Decoration artists of the 1970s and 1980s, the Suprematists looked to patterns in Russian folk art for inspiration.
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