Selected Reviews and Articles


CONNIE SAMARAS: Tales of Tomorrow,
Susanna Newbury, X-TRA, Volume 16, Number 2, Winter 2014.

Symbolic Landscape: Pictures Beyond the Picturesque,
Juli Carson, Curator, PDF of exhibition catalogue, October 2013.

Connie Samaras: Tales of Tomorrow,
"Review of reviews: Art," The Week, May 31, 2013.

Who Makes Art About Climate Change?,
Robby Herbst, Artbound/KCET, Los Angeles, May 10, 2013.

Connie Samaras' Photographs Conjure Fantasy Worlds,
Sharon Mizota, LOS ANGELES TIMES, April 4, 2013.

Critics' Picks - Connie Samaras: Tales of Tomorrow,
Annie Buckley, ARTFORUM.COM, March 1, 2013.

Taking Flight: UCR's ARTSblock Embraces Your Inner Astronaut with "Free Enterprise,"
Evan Senn, Inland Empire Weekly, Jan 24, 2013.

De-Mobbing Invests in Different Futures at Headlands Center for Arts,
Christian Frock, KQED Arts, Feb 26, 2012.

The New Mexico Museum of Art Presents Three New Mexico Photographers,
Caroline Westoby, Art Knowledge News, Jan 5, 2012.

The Aesthetics of Disappearance: Climate Change, Antarctica and the Contemporary Sublime in the Work of Anne Noble, Connie Samaras and Judit Hersko,
Lisa Bloom, ISEA 2011 Istanbul, 17th International Symposium, Sept 2012.

Art of Space,
Paul Weiderman, Pasatiempo-Santa Fe New Mexican, Oct 28-Nov 3, 2011.

Living Ice: Rediscovery of the Poles in an Era of Climate Crisis,
Elena Glasberg, WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 39, Numbers 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2011.

Connie Samaras, California Museum of Photography,
Carrie Paterson, Artillery, May/June 2011.

Connie Samaras’ After the American Century,
Lisa Bloom, Exhibition Brochure California Museum of Photography, Riverside, 2011.

Dubai, The City of the Future Exposed,
Liesl Bradner, LA Times, Arts & Culture, Feb 12, 2011.

After the American Century,
Tyler Davidson, Inland Empire Weekly, Feb 9, 2011.

Connie Samaras: Framing the Conversation,
Ariel Swartley, Enjoy Your Time Exhibition Brochure, Motalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA, 2009.

Enjoy Your Time, Montalvo Arts Center, (Agency the Work of Artists),
Kavita Philip, Summer Encounters with Art/ Technology, Difference Engines, July 31, 2009.

Antarctica: Gus Fisher Gallery,
T.J. McNamara, Visual Arts, The New Zealand Herald, Auckland, New Zealand, June 8, 2009.

Southern white wilderness,
John Hurrell, eyeContact, New Zealand, May 12, 2009.

Polar Fantasies and Aesthetics in the Work of Isaac Julien and Connie Samaras,
Lisa Bloom, The Scholar and The Feminist, 7.1: Fall 2008.

Connie Samaras: V.A.L.I.S. (vast active living intelligence system),
Kristina Newhouse, cover, X-TRA, Vol. 10, #4, Summer 2008.

Connie Samaras at de Soto Gallery,
Matias Viegener, ArtUs, Jan-Feb 2008.

V.A.L.I.S. by Connie Samaras,
Jeannie Simms,Make/Shift feminisms in motion, fall-winter, 2008-09.

Art and Environmentalist Practice,
Kavita Philip, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Routledge, June 2008.

Claims on Beauty,
Sophie Jerram, Photomedia (New Zealand Journal of Photography), #65, Wellington, 2007.

Antarctica,
Ciara Ennis, Exhibition Brochure Pitzer College Galleries, Claremont, CA, 2007.

Camera Artists in Antarctica,
Elena Glasberg, Photomedia (New Zealand Journal of Photography), #65, Wellington, 2007.

Connie Samaras/Angelic States – Event Sequence,
Matias Viegener, Homeland Securities, Radical History Review, NYC, Fall 2005.

Exhibit Depicts Menacing States,
Joanne Silver, Boston Herald, 10.03.2003.

Review: San Francisco,
David Bonetti, Contemporary, U.K. November, 2002.

Connie Samaras at the San Francisco Art Institute,
Rachel Churner,Artweek, 33 no.7, Sept 2002.

Samaras’ Anxious Landscapes,
Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, July 20, 2002.

A Reality Stranger than Fiction,
Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle, July 9, 2002.

Angelic States – Event Sequence,
Lindsey Westbrook, Critic’s Choice, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 3-9, 2002.

The Truth is Out There,
Allan DeSouza, Connie Samaras, Angelic States-Event Sequence, San Francisco Art Institute, 2002.

Charm Offensive,
Yong Soon Min, Exhibition Brochure Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 2000.

Mother/Daughter Relationship,
Amy Scholder, In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice, Nayland Blake, Lawrence Rinder, Amy Scholder, editors, High Risk Books, San Francisco, CA, 1995.

The Monophobic Response,
Octavia Butler, Connie Samaras: A Partial Correction of the Representations of Earth Culture Sent to Extraterrestrials on the U.S. 1977 Voyager Interstellar Space Probes, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, 1994.

Corrective Measures: Connie Samaras at New Langton Arts,
Terri Cohn, Artweek, June 23, 1994.