Drawing
Learn how Samantha Wall's monochrome drawings offer highly personal explorations of identity, race, and interior life.
By John A. Parks
A Clarion Call (graphite and sumi ink, 55 x 34) From the series Partially Severed" by Samantha Wall
The drawings of Oregon-based artist Samantha Wall explore, expose, and strive to make sense of the artists place in the world as a woman of multiracial heritage and quite simply as a human being. Using traditional drawing techniques in charcoal, graphite, and ink, she deploys an accomplished language of chiaroscuro and line. Sometimes this is combined with less conventional handling, to make imagery…