https://www.sammapp.com/blog daily 0.75 2019-07-25 https://www.sammapp.com/work daily 1.0 2020-07-04 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d35f066507d150001d8de36/1563816056421/Mapp_Low+Res_01.jpg Work The PMA, 2018, Acrylic on plexiglass with epoxy, 20 1/2 x 14 1/8 inches https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d35f0478492d8000135e827/1563817634542/Mapp_Low+Res_03.jpg Work The Glass House, 2018, Acrylic on plexiglass with epoxy, 21 x 13 inches Painted on the backside of quarter-inch panels of plexiglass, these paintings reference photographs of glass architecture. Three types of transparency are laminated together: the picture plane, transparent media and subject. In many cases, the paint is so thin that the gallery wall is apparent through the painting, as if the wall (and whatever color it is) were its ground. Site, architecture and picture overlap in a transparent chain of reference. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d35f05a2c17ab00010fa786/1563816033777/Mapp_Low+Res_07.jpg Work Maria at the Villa Savoye, 2018, Acrylic on plexiglass with epoxy, 12 5/8 x 11 3/8 inches https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5f00779e782f302e6bf121ea/1593866221078/IMG_4947.JPG Work Untitled, 2020, 22 x 30 inches, Ink, watercolor and colored pencil on 300 lb. Jack Richeson paper https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d35f0718492d8000135f15e/1563816067021/Mapp_Low+Res_05.jpg Work Lucienne and Carina Between Glass Walls, 2018, Acrylic on plexiglass with epoxy, 20 1/2 x 16 inches https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5f0071dca3e232150d5cc125/1593864707828/unnamed-10.jpg Work Mappemonde, 2020, 22 x 30 inches, Ink, watercolor and colored pencil on 300 lb. Jack Richeson paper https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5de5a89fcc029b3bcd7235a5/1593864903715/02_Mapp_Low+Res.jpg Work Le Monde Bleu 1, 2019, 15 x 20 inches, Ink on paper I spent the summer of 2019 in Montreal with my family. We’ve been traveling quite a bit of late, supporting my wife’s career and her passion for French culture. During this time, we have stayed in a number of flats and have noticed the near ubiquity of a world map on display. In response to this observation, I started to draw and paint my own pictures of the world with blue ink that my sister gave me. Coincidentally, it was announced in August that a long lost album by John Coltrane, Blue World, had been discovered and would be released on September 27th, 2019. This album was commissioned in 1964 by Montreal filmmaker, Gilles Groulx, for his film, Le chat dans le sac; while Groulx only used 10 minutes of it for his soundtrack, you can now listen to the whole album online. For me, the coincidence of time and place, subject and color, felt enlarging and spiritual, something like Proust’s notion of an artist’s “lost homeland.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5de5a7c98d3bc0294025f589/1575331789352/01_Mapp_Low+Res.jpg Work Le Monde Bleu 3, 2019, 15 x 20 inches, Ink on paper https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5de5a7d9483f966c5c82e230/1575331804477/03_Mapp_Low+Res.jpg Work Le Monde Bleu 2, 2019, 15 x 20 inches, Ink on paper https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5f006fdacdfa560968ff8ab9/1593864700230/unnamed-9.jpg Work What space I inhabit/You'll fill with water or sky, 2020, 22 x 30 inches, Ink, watercolor and colored pencil on 300 lb. Jack Richeson paper During the COVID-19 pandemic, a new blue world map image became widely distributed in the media, cataloguing deaths and infection rates around the world. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5eea649f9a94bc0a11a6a5bf/1592420790268/3d+fire.jpg Work Are They the Workings of One Mind?, 2014, Acrylic on Hunter’s Jacket Camo Fire 3d. Curated by Benoit Menard into an exhibit, What’s on ur mind?, at gallery Exo Exo, Paris, 2014 http://exoexo.xyz/show/whatsonurmind.html https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5eea663954db6d74a8c52186/1592419973914/IMG_1022.jpg Work Untitled, 2014, Enamel on Digital Camo print https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d415ff271ba6e0001c1b063/1564565498550/PennMFA_SamMapp_011.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d415fe0c3b2210001fb81d0/1564565480602/PennMFA_SamMapp_010.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d415fd649a80d0001f206c6/1564565470803/PennMFA_SamMapp_009.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d415f94c3b2210001fb80df/1564565401068/PennMFA_SamMapp_001.jpg Work Grids, 2013, Each painting is 30 x 40 inches, Acrylic on patterned linen and a tailored suit. The patterned linen in grids of red and green, provides the support for the paintings that replicate this pattern. From surface and paint to support and linen, a material shift subtly separates, like camouflage, the continuous image of pattern wrapping around the wooden stretcher bars. Arrayed across a room, the grid is a field that I inhabit. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d41601b60676800017d15bc/1564565540420/PennMFA_SamMapp_013.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d415fb0771f1c00012aad2f/1564565432800/PennMFA_SamMapp_008.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d41600dfd68dd0001dd4854/1564565525042/PennMFA_SamMapp_012.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d35efa12c17ab00010f5b54/1563815849804/Mapp_Low+Res_09.jpg Work Botanical 3, 2016, 8.5 x 11 inches, Oil, acrylic, pencil on wood, glass and paper https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5de5a58229802b34bcc65d83/1575331241369/04_Mapp_Low+Res.jpg Work Botanical 4, 2016, 8.5 x 11 inches, Oil, acrylic, pencil on wood, glass and paper https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d35ef938492d8000135a965/1563988132943/Mapp_Low+Res_11.jpg Work Botanical 1, 2016, 8.5 x 11 inches, Oil, acrylic, pencil on wood, glass and paper. Each shadow box is custom made before I paint the frame, both sides of the glass and the interior surfaces. A central perspectival point radiates in concentric colors and pattern that resemble a mandala and draw the multiple surfaces together. The botanical figures are painted from specimens that come from my sister, Nora, who dried and shipped them to me in books. We once painted blue botanicals for a great artist; these paintings commemorate that period of our lives and because of this, I think of these paintings as part of a collectivity. Each is a prayer. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d35ef99507d150001d8ac3c/1563815839906/Mapp_Low+Res_10.jpg Work Botanical 2, 2016, 8.5 x 11 inches, Oil, acrylic, pencil on wood, glass and paper https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d36095942b5000001a13bc2/1563822436893/Pig+Board+2.5.jpg Work Pig Board, 2009, carved Jatoba, 45” x 12” x 3”, unique I take the idea for the Pig Board from the Hawaiian luau that often features a large wood platter (something like a small surfboard) at the center of the festivity. The Pig Board transforms a dinner table into a similar event; it is a canvas on which to paint with food, a cause for celebration. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d3609683bc9200001f2a727/1563822461667/Pig+Board+3.3.jpg Work Pig Board, 2013, food grade aluminum, 33.5 “ x 10” x 2”, edition of 3 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d36097942b5000001a141cb/1563822473850/Pig+Board1.jpg Work Pig Board, 2009, carved Padauk, 36” x 12.5” x 3.5”, unique https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5eea56d5693f6d67f8652779/1592416301859/Mapp_Low+Res_15.jpg Work Denim Reflection 1, 2015, 19 7/8 x 20 inches, Enamel on denim https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5eea55200ac3195210831b13/1592417846822/Mapp_Low+Res_12.jpg Work Denim Reflection 1, 2015, 13 1/2 x 16 inches, Enamel on denim At a hardware store, I had either side of a piece of denim chromatically analyzed by a digital scanner (this is the same tool used for domestic and commercial color matching applications). I then stretched this denim over a series of wooden frames and painted them exclusively with these two colors. Each picture emerged gradually out of the denim support. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5eea561a7fd37d517fb234ca/1592416296373/Mapp_Low+Res_14.jpg Work Denim Reflection 3, 2015, 15 3/4 x 19 inches, Enamel on denim https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5eea55c4f6de3d743d30af47/1592416289618/Mapp_Low+Res_13.jpg Work Denim Reflection 2, 2015, 14 3/8 x 18 1/8 inches, Enamel on denim https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5eea57336415cd0033837254/1592416308922/Mapp_Low+Res_16.jpg Work Denim Reflection 1, 2015, 21 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches, Enamel on denim https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d35ffb02c17ab0001130b2a/1563819972240/display_red-der4-04.jpg Work red:der, 2014, 22 x 30 inches, Archival digital Epson print. This series of pictures is made by first painting notebooks with watercolor and then photographing the results, which are largely unexpected and out of my control. This picture recalls the tradition of marbled paper, decorations often reserved for the front and back of a book. So too is marble and wood bookmatched, a process of cutting and turning the material until the pattern mirrors itself on the wall or in furniture. My pictures are structured by the book—bound paper that opens and closes—which distributes the color and pattern in ways evocative of a Rorschach blot. How does one read this book? https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d35ffbf2c17ab0001130cd2/1563819975953/display_red-der2-0202.jpg Work red:der, 2014, 22 x 30 inches, Archival digital Epson print. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d35ffb88492d8000139688a/1563819968147/display_red-der6-0606.jpg Work red:der, 2014, 22 x 30 inches, Archival digital Epson print. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d377cf94c6fa700014d79c9/1563917581106/21.jpg Work Cut Rings, 2012, sterling silver, dimensions variable https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d377cf24c6fa700014d7631/1563917581998/20.jpg Work Cut Rings, 2012, approximately 18k gold, dimensions variable The rings I make are transformative. They take the idea of the heirloom and give it a new form by first melting inherited jewelry and then casting the material as a series of rings. Each ring shares an adjacent, uniquely cut, side to the next that together represents a “family”. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d35feb28492d8000139425b/1563819706220/Mapp_Low+Res_09.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d35fedf8492d80001394863/1563819747806/Mapp_Low+Res_03.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d35fff08492d80001397f71/1563820024579/display_red-der2-0202.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d360a36c4bd470001689eb7/1563822657050/Pig+Board+2.5.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d377d502143350001e69e7a/1563917670450/20.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d4161353d74b70001650116/1564565824307/PennMFA_SamMapp_008.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5eea5f07576cc00d12b80521/1592418066313/Mapp_Low+Res_13.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5eea669ec4a8215ca7535c0e/1592420000656/3d+fire.jpg Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5f0072c701870f76cbb8eaab/1575332003962/02_Mapp_Low+Res.jpg Work https://www.sammapp.com/about daily 0.75 2020-07-22 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d35c5e7d0ea2200014f2cf5/t/5d38a8997689e500019854d5/1563994276227/sam-mapp-vienna-press.jpg About The artist in 2013 wearing a suit tailored to match his paintings.