Personal identification. Sam Jennings (11 works)

Разрешение картинок от 700x700px до 1181x1503px

Sam Jennings, a contemporary artist, was born in San Francisco but raised in Chicago. He began drawing 20 years ago and soon his passion for painting led him to the Art Institute of Chicago. It was at art school that Sam was introduced to the Internet, which by that time had already become widely available, and also began to use the computer as his main drawing medium.

According to Sam, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, nationality are signs of personality, symbols that require identification. People "dress" in symbols of their culture, symbols with which they show that they belong to something or who they aspire to be. Many of them use facial markings - tattoos, paint, scars, jewelry - to indicate a person's place in the world, their place in society. Sometimes, like cultures, these symbols collapse and then people create new ones to take the place of the old ones. These are images of people called SAMNATION who have chosen their own special path. They proudly and boldly declare who they are and at the same time hide behind the mask of their drawings.