New Beginning

Kai Samuels-Davis

New Beginning

Oil on panel

36 x 30 inches

2014

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Kai Samuels-Davis is a New York born artist living and working in Inverness, CA.  He attended classes at the Woodstock School of Art at the age of 16, followed by a stint at the Art Students League of New York the following year.  In 2002 he received his Bachelors in Fine Arts degree at State University of New York Purchase before moving to California where he completed the graduate program in film at Art Center College of Design in 2006. 

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Structures and spaces are fragmented or blurred to accentuate the balance between distraction and clarity in daily thought.  The images are cerebral and visceral, creating a mood of melancholy and solitude with an appreciation for their necessity and beauty.(https://www.etsy.com/shop/kaisamuelsdavis?ref=l2-shopheader-name#about)

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This work demonstrates Value as an element of design in that the piece uses similar colors but many different tones to create contrast, drama and variation.

It demonstrates Variety as a principle of design in that there are many contrasting shapes, made by the artist’s knife, while mainly uniform in execution, are varied by position and intensity of color. 

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We chose this work because it illustrates one of the key elements of our theme as the distortion of time. You can see that there are multiple moments being captured but displayed as a single image. There are many things happening at once yet in reality, we don’t have the luxury of being able to examine these states of being in one captured moment.