Artists

Sam Falls

Press release

Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to present the tenth solo exhibition by US artist Sam Falls. As a young man, Sam Falls became eager to leave behind the farm in a small Vermont town where he had grown up with his mother. With a population of 3,000, the pre-Internet rural setting felt limiting, and he longed for the intellectual buzz of a big city. Eventually moving to New York, he set out to pursue his artistic ambitions. Given his desire to escape that pastoral life, it’s even more striking that nature would later become central to his work. After years immersed in universities, libraries, and the urban landscape, Falls began returning to the natural world. Sleeping in a tent, he spent extended periods outdoors and discovered that he felt more at home under a starry sky than inside a city studio. What initially seemed like a departure from his roots turned out to be a return: the forests and deserts of his childhood, experienced as an only child, reemerged as a source of creative inspiration. Today, Falls doesn’t maintain traditional studio practice. Instead, he embraces national parks and rural landscapes as ever-changing workspaces, where his creativity can unfold in close contact with the natural elements that continue to shape his art.