Reflections of Space: A Changing Landscape

Project Statement

I’ve always been fascinated by the natural world and the ways the landscapes around us can put our lives into perspective. This series is a contemplative exploration compared to an attempt at answering the questions and problems that concern me. Through time in space, nature allows us to explore who we are through our experiences while putting into question our impacts as a society.

We as people all experience landscapes differently. How we perceive a space and what we bring to that space affects the way we interact, experience, or contemplate it. We, just like the landscapes around us, are always changing, shifting, and evolving.

This body of work is a reflective exploration of our relationship with nature. The works hover in a realm somewhere between reality and a dream. Through past experiences, memories, mark making, environmental concerns, personal connections, and processes of print these introspective lands are created. They are spaces influenced by my life and the events I have gone through. For me, these landscapes hold a presence of loss, survival, and hope. They are environments to appreciate, ponder, explore, and as a viewer, become lost in.

Artist Bio

Sam Orosz is a printmaker and visual artist born and raised in Minnesota, Prior to PNCA, in 2014, Orosz received a Bachelor of Fine Art, with emphasis in printmaking, drawing, and painting, from the University of Minnesota Duluth, School of Fine Arts.

Through intaglio, lithography, and mixed media, Orosz creates contemporary landscapes that explore environments while contemplating an individual's reflections of space and our presence in the natural world. His artwork is inspired by vast open spaces and his personal experiences in these landscapes.
Over the years, Sam has exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally including solo shows at the Tweed Museum of Art, and Highpoint Center for Printmaking. In 2015, Orosz was awarded the Jerome Emerging Printmakers Residency, and his work has been acquired into the permanent collections of the Minnesota Museum of American Art and the North Dakota Museum of Art.