About: Samuel ABelow

Statement: Samuel Abelow is a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, painting, sound and sculpture. Under the premise of reviewing contemporary art — for a Parisian journal, Art-Critique.com — Abelow met with top artists from across the United States. This work, as well as intensive studies and Jungian analysis, culminated in his unique system of color and understanding of world mythology, image, personality which is the backdrop to his creative production. Abelow’s art is primarily a love affair with oil paint on large scale linen canvas. His paintings are a metamorphosis of historical and mythological material through his personal & eclectic imagination, which is eccentric, mystical and essentially Jewish.

Biography: Born in 1991, in New York City, NY, Samuel Abelow was raised in Connecticut, studied at the Sonic Arts Center of the City College of New York. Between 2016 - 2019 he was employed as an art critic for French journal, Art-Critique.com applauded by gallerists and assistant directors at such galleries as Marc Straus, Kasmin Gallery, Nicelle Beauchene, as well as artists, including Hein Koh, Ruby Sky Stiler and more. As a painter, his works entered private collections between  2013 - 2019, including in Berlin, Manhattan, Brooklyn, East Hampton, Greenwich, Westport, Fairfield, Ithaca, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Boulder. In 2019, a focus on painting culminated in a solo exhibition curated by Timothy Hull. The title of the exhibition was, “Samuel Abelow: The Orphic Dance & Persephone's Eyes of Water” and was presented by the Azarian McCullough Gallery at St Thomas Aquinas College in September 2019. Since 2022, Samuel Abelow has been living in Crown Heights, Brooklyn where he is immersed in the study of Jewish mysticism. These deep studies and the New York City environment inform and inspire his works. 

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