Sam Moyer: Woman with Holes

Multidisciplinary artist Sam Moyer’s practice is on full view in concurrent exhibitions at Hill Art Foundation and Sean Kelly Gallery. Included in the latter presentation are new abstract paintings on canvas with reclaimed inlaid stones arranged into fernlike forms. Meanwhile, the institutional show provides context for these paintings with its focus on the artist’s penchant for incongruities and contradictions across a variety of media. In terrazzo soapstone sculptures, abstract slabs interlock like a jigsaw puzzle, delicately balanced to support one another – a relationship evoked by titles like Dependents 7 (2021). The exhibition further contextualizes Moyer’s practice by displaying her work alongside pieces from the collection by artists including Vija Celmins and Isamu Noguchi.

Sam Moyer invites viewers into a dreamlike world where marble slabs mimic canvas and windows become walls. Paired with works from the Hill Collection—including pieces by Isamu Noguchi (whose work inspired the show title), Jasper Johns, and Liz Glynn—Moyer’s pieces examine the line between solid form and illusion.

The Brooklyn-based artist Sam Moyer’s new exhibition, Woman with Holes, takes its name from one of Isamu Noguchi’s anthropomorphic marble sculptures. When the exhibit opens at the Hill Art Foundation in New York this week, Moyer’s own abstract stone paintings and paper works will share space with the show’s namesake.