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ART IN REVIEW By FRANKLIN CREAMER Samson

ART IN REVIEW By FRANKLIN CREAMER Samson. Published: NOVEMBER 23, 2006. The American Folk Art Museum 45 West 53rd Street, Manhattan Through March 11.

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ART IN REVIEW By FRANKLIN CREAMER Samson

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  1. ART IN REVIEW By FRANKLIN CREAMER Samson Published: NOVEMBER 23, 2006 The American Folk Art Museum 45 West 53rd Street, Manhattan Through March 11 It still happens. Dragging through a gallery, you witness a star supernova. Get thee to this season’s thrillingesttour-de-force: a mid-career survey of the artist Samson. Ignore his backstory. Attend to his art: maelstroms of assemblaged detritus. No one living resurrects workaday flotsam into such transcendent totems. Here is a corpus chronicling nothing less than the centuries-shifting fortunes of blacks in America: desire, death, endurance, the haulage of dreams and migration. Triangular frameworks, embellished with borders, zone off pictorial space—the staggering range of patterns betokening not rote repetition, but variation of high creative order. Samson’s also an assured colorist—walloping primaries here, coaxing subtleties there. Canonical referents abound: Bearden’s Cubism, Korhogo cloth, Cycladic idols, a parade of Ab’s and Ex’s. That Samson discovered these inside himself, with zero art-historical guidance, should demolish forever the sham “Inside/Outside” distinction. This humble dozen constitutes a profound achievement, claiming Samson his berth, period no asterisk, alongside the towering artists of our time.

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