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present the man or what he does. His manner is quiet and conventional but as you get to know him, it is easy to discern the depth of who he is and the commitment he has to his art. A self taught artist living in San Francisco with


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his wife, his dog Buster and two cats, he always believed in the use of accessible materials as part of the natural process of creating art. Be- lieving that if you love to make art then noth- ing should get in the way, he struggled as most artists do to keep up. As a self taught artist, he had to work harder to keep his career within reach at times. As a means of necessity, early in his career,


he began cutting up magazines and newspa- pers lying around the studio and gluing them


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amuel Price is a simply complex man, and so is his work. While that may sound like a conflict of description, there is ba- sically no other way to


to a canvas. Using everyday items as a means of ex- pression, it was revealed to him later, just how much art history preceded this natural progression. Sam’s technique is called collage or photo-montage, and re- quires an exorbitant amount of hours assembling, cutting and pasting hundreds of tiny paper pieces onto canvas and finally cre- ating a finished work of art. The starting point of


a blueprint drawing. He studies the image, focusing on the details and subtle


his collage portraits be- gins with a photograph which then goes through the process of creating the image onto a can- vas. When he starts, it is drawn out as a grid, like


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