Samantha McEwen

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