Samantha Wickman

BIOGRAPHY

Samantha Wickman grew up in Massachusetts. She studied ceramics and English literature at Connecticut College and graduated with a BA in 2008. She also spent time abroad studying ceramics at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland and received a Masters in library science from Simmons College in 2013. After finishing her BA, she moved to the Boston area and began taking classes and workshops at Mudflat Studio in Somerville. Samantha has been an active member of the Mudflat community, participating in group shows and sales throughout the year. She has recently started showing her sculptural work in various group shows across the country.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Drawing heavily from personal experience, Samantha Wickman’s sculptures are a sustained meditation on what happens to people when they fall from the realm of the living into the kingdom of the sick by way of chronic pain and illness. Lacking means of ascent, the shadow beings depicted are floating, unhinged from the earthly world, desperately creating an existence from the flotsam and jetsam of ruin and disease. They exist, in all their flaws, lighting matches in a sea of darkness, proof that life in the kingdom of the sick exists, and that there is both beauty and meaning amidst the chaos.  

Website: www.samanthawickman.com
Instagram: @slwic