Samuelle Green: Immersive Paper, Career Moves & Reflective Sculpture

Samuelle Green grew up in rural Pennsylvania in a family of makers and studied art at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Parsons in New York. After nearly 20 years in NYC working across galleries, museums, fabrication and film sets, she made a pivotal decision: leave the city to have the space to finally build the work she had always wanted to make.

That work is large scale immersive installations built from rolled cones of reclaimed books and found paper. Exhibited across the US as well as in China, Italy, France and Estonia. Green’s work has also appeared on HBO and AMC+ and won the Arte Laguna Prize in Venice.

What we cover:

• The decision to leave New York City after nearly 20 years to reclaim her studio practice

• What it takes to create immersive installations out of paper and what happens when huge panels of work go missing two weeks before a show

• The accidental acoustic discovery: paper installations as anechoic chambers, concert venues and restaurant sound dampeners

• Creating art for TV and film sets and what artists should know before saying yes

• Reflective outdoor sculptures activated only by car headlights and flash photography and pivoting your medium after finding success

Samuelle Green is based in rural Pennsylvania and represented by Ivy Brown Gallery in New York and Bonham Gallery in Arrowtown, New Zealand. Her work is also available through Holly Hunt Design showrooms across the US.

You can see her reflective installation in person near Cochecton Fire Station at 54 County Road 114 in Cochecton, New York.

Find out more about her work on her website: https://samuellegreen.com and follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samuellegreen

03:44 Growing Up Creative

05:58 Leaving New York

08:10 First Big Break

09:49 Crowdfunding the Installation

15:33 Paper Durability and Storage

16:54 Install Timeline and Logistics

20:42 Safety and Public Interaction

22:51 Overseas Exhibitions

31:21 Grant Funded Pivot To Public Art

34:34 TV Film Set Work

42:53 Studio Practice And Sketches

55:45 Sound And Silence

Also mentioned in this episode:

Tyler School of Art: https://tyler.temple.edu/ | https://www.instagram.com/tyler_artandarchitecture/

Pearl Paint: https://www.pearlpaintco.com/

Parsons School of Design: https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/ | https://www.instagram.com/TheNewSchool/ | @thenewschool

Hatch Fund: https://thehatchfund.org/ | https://www.instagram.com/hatchfund/

Rosco flame retardant: https://au.rosco.com/en/products/roscoflamex | https://www.instagram.com/rosco_labs/ | @rosco_labs

TAKKK Symposium: https://www.takkksymposions.ee/en/sümpoosion | https://www.instagram.com/takkkkunstikeskus/

Holly Hunt Design: https://www.hollyhunt.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/hollyhuntdesign/ | @hollyhuntdesign

Art on Paper New York: https://ny.thepaperfair.com/

Morris Museum: https://morrismuseum.org/ | https://www.instagram.com/morrismuseum/ | @morrismuseum131

Taizé: https://www.taize.fr/en/ | https://www.instagram.com/taize | @taize

The Installation Art Podcast is a show about people who love and work with the contemporary art medium of installation. The host Anastasia Parmson, an artist herself, interviews internationally renowned artists and arts workers about the intricacies and behind-the-scenes stories of creating and showing work that is site-specific, ephemeral, large scale or immersive.

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