Natasha Garcia-Lomas
2010
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View on museum website →Medium
inkjet print
Dimensions
image: 81.28 × 45.72 cm (32 × 18 in.) sheet: 91.44 × 50.8 cm (36 × 20 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kimberly and John F. Zwetchkenbaum
Accession Number
2013.144.1
Art Historical Context
**Natasha Garcia-Lomas** *Lucas Samaras, 2010* Lucas Samaras, a trailblazing Greek-American artist in 1934, has long pushed the boundaries of photography, from his iconic 1960s–70s "autopolaroids"—distorted, intimate self-portraits—to later digital explorations of identity and form. Created in 2010, *Natasha Garcia-Lomas* is an inkjet print (image: 81.28 × 45.72 cm), showcasing Samaras' enduring fascination with the portrait as a site of revelation. Now in the National Gallery of Art's Contemporary Photograph collection (CPH), it was generously gifted by Kimberly and John F. Zwetchkenbaum...
About the Artist
Lucas Samaras
Lucas Samaras, a Greek-born American artist renowned for his boundary-defying explorations of self and identity, was born on September 14, 1936, in Kastoria, Greece. Immigrating to the United States with his family in 1948 amid the turmoil of World War II and the Greek Civil War, he settled in West New York, New Jersey. Samaras pursued studies at Rutgers University from 1955 to 1959, where he befr...