Samantha McEwen: London | Paris | New York. Works and Life from the 1980s to the Present

Samantha McEwen is an Anglo-American artist born in 1960 in London, about whom Keith Haring declares in one of his interviews: “When I arrived in New York, I spent my time at school (School of Visual Arts). Everything was new and exciting. I was 20 years old. In my drawing class, I was immediately drawn to a girl named Samantha McEwen.” Samantha remembers: “He sat in front of me and said: 'Can I draw you?'”. Relatively unknown to this day, she also modelled for Francesco Clemente and Alex Katz. In the 1980s, Samantha McEwen was one of the few women to exhibit twice in the famous Tony Shafrazi Gallery. She also participates in numerous group exhibitions alongside the leading artists of that flamboyant decade. However, very few texts exist about her work; art critics are mainly men who write about men. In the numerous articles of the art press on these exhibitions, her name is merely mentioned and rarely accompanied by a few lines. A revealing paradox of that era, Samantha McEwen is found in full-page spreads in the fashion sections of major magazines, such as Interview (Andy Warhol's magazine) and The New York Times Magazine. Text in English and French. AUTHOR: Hervé Perdriolle is an art critic and curator. After organising the first show of the French Figuration Libre movement (Blanchard, Boisrond, Combas, Di Rosa, Viollet) in Paris (1981), he took part in the first exhibitions of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1984). SELLING POINTS: . First monograph on Samantha McEwen's life and work . Unseen works from the 1980s to the present . Gives a glace on the punk and glam artistic scene in New York 183 colour illustrations

Table of Contents:
7 Who is Samantha McEwen? Hervé Perdriolle Qui est Samantha McEwen? Hervé Perdriolle 13 Questions for Samantha McEwen (Asking for a friend) Linda Yablonsky Questions à Samantha McEwen (Demande pour une amie) Linda Yablonsky 25 Glamour, Desolation, Beauty . . . A Conversation Samantha McEwen and Neal Brown Glamour, Désolation, Beauté... Une conversation Samantha McEwen et Neal Brown 47 Samantha McEwen Works 1980–2023 224 Samantha McEwen Studio London 2020s

About the Author :
Hervé Perdriolle is an art critic and curator. After organising the first show of the French Figuration Libre movement (Blanchard, Boisrond, Combas, Di Rosa, Viollet) in Paris (1981), he took part in the first exhibitions of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1984). Linda Yablonsky is an arts journalist and critic based in New York, where she is a correspondent for The Art Newspaper and a frequent contributor to many other publications as well as to several exhibition catalogues and monographs, including Keith Haring/Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines (Princeton University Press, 2022). She is also the author of The Story of Junk: A Novel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997) and of a forthcoming biography of the artist Jeff Koons. Neal Brown is an artist and poet-writer based in London. He has written about contemporary art for most UK and many international art magazines, and is the author of a number of books, including for Tate. He also curates, is a songwriter, and writes about punk.

Review :
"Remedy for the tumult of our modern society, the works of samantha mcewan are like so many windows opening onto interior landscapes." [Google translate from original French] - Arts Libre "It took some time before she understood that she was an artist in all respects, a painter. "I worked in nightclubs and painted; I created jewelry and painted; I sewed and painted. Around the age of thirty I realized that there was a constant." " - Vogue Italy "Samantha McEwen lived with Keith Haring & Co. in 1980s New York. Then came HIV and family dramas. And she understood that to be an artist she had to find her own way of painting flowers." - la Repubblica