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L2
Leaflet 2
2025 · Etching and aquatint
28 1/4 × 21" (71.8 × 53.3 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Sam Moyer
1983
Chicago, IL, USA
Painting
Representation
None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
7
Works in Collection
32
Assets Indexed
12
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0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Ground Work (Field Revision)
Sean Kelly Gallery
2026
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Faktura / Tektonika
Sean Kelly Gallery
2025
About
Why this artist matters now
Sam Moyer is an American painter whose practice engages abstraction through layered, translucent surfaces and chromatic intensity. Working in Brooklyn, her paintings build spatial depth through accumulated glazes and gestural marks that resist linear composition. Her work extends a lineage of color-field investigation while introducing contemporary material concerns and formal rigor. Moyer's canvases operate between structure and spontaneity, creating visual fields that reward sustained looking.
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Brian Rochefort
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Sean Kelly Gallery
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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Corcoran School of the Arts & Design
Visual Arts
Yale University
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