Word: sam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However extraordinary Sidewalk Sam might appear to the general public, it is the conventional art world--the art bureaucracy, as Sam calls it--which is most aware of how unconventional Sam really is. Concrete pavement, after all, is not your everyday medium. Neither are the wooden planks he works with in his East Cambridge studio strictly "accepted...
...reviewer," Sam says with obvious delight, "said that my work looks like the crates other artists' work get sent to museums in. That pleased...
When asked why he likes to work on concrete, Sam says "As an artist I am interested in external relationship: time, place and function. By working on the sidewalks I give my art a permanent place. With an easel it's different. You can't give your work any definite location in space. I make my art a part of its environment and I give it a function in that environment...
...people who stop to admire Sam's work often wonder about the logistical problems of sidewalk-painting. "Who cleans it up?" someone will...
...Father Pollution and Mother Nature," Sam will answer...