Courtney Sams
Visual Artist
I am an Oakland California based artist. My current work utilizes the Lake Merritt bird population to explore themes of ephemerality and rosy retrospection.
RECENT FOCUS
HOARDING AND THE PROCESS OF COLLECTING
THE SANCTIFYING PROCESS OF DECONTEXTUALIZING
My current works focus on the compulsion to preserve ephemeral objects as a repository of autobiographical memories.
Former works focused on geese as hostile threats. I have since made peace with the birds.
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Tiny, Two Cats Gallery, El Cerrito, CA
Pyramid Scheme, Bass and Reiner, San Francisco, CA
Contact
INSTAGRAM
CHARCOALGRAYSOCKS
Courtneybialosky (at) gmail (dot) com
