Samantha
Wolov
began her art career at the age of sixteen months when her
mother would line the shower walls with paper and allow
her to finger-paint murals in the bathtub. Even today, Wolov
still has the inclination to make art in some state of undress.
After a brief and very unsuccessful stint as an oboe player
in elementary school, Wolov, at the suggestion of her father
(himself an amateur photographer), and the encouragement
of her mother, decided to move towards visual arts. Wolov
is a self-taught artist, having only taken one photography
class for a semester in high school. She has been featured
in several shows, including in the Fraser Gallery in Washington,
D.C. and the Stage Gallery in New York. She was a winner
in Nerve Magazine’s first Emerging Photographer Competition.
She won “Best in Show” at the 2005 National
Competition at the Washington Gallery of Photography, received
seven Honorable Mentions from the Annual Lucie International
Photographic Awards, and curated her own erotic photography
projection installation in May 2005. Wolov received her
B.A. in Art History in 2005 and plans to take dirty pictures
as long as people are willing to get naked for her.
When
I visited her webpage there was one photography series that
interested me a great deal. The series were titled 'plastic'.
Read more about these series in the 2nd part about this
fascinating young artist.
