Isabel Samaras is the original Devil Babe, whose beautiful and sometimes saucy work results from the alchemy of high and low culture cooked in the crucible of the wicked female mind. Her impassioned paintings glow with the golden light of the Old Masters and blue light of the cathode tube. As one critic noted, "Samaras' work is classical in technique and pop in content -- she's best known for naughtily transforming television and other pop icons."

   It all began, she says, with a lunch box.  “I think the first one was a Catwoman/Batman tin lunch box, which I did just to sort of amuse myself. Why couldn’t Catwoman and Batman ever get it on? I painted it because I wanted to own it, and it didn’t exist.”  Her methods have changed, evolving from the lunch boxes of the early ‘90s through the metal TV trays and wooden game boards of the late ‘90s to the lustrous and alluring oil paintings on wooden panels she currently favors.  But her painted narratives still revolve around issues of secret love, unrequited lust and making things end the way we wish they would.

  Comparing her work to much postmodern painting, one critic writes, “Samaras has created a truly populist art that TV junkies and art history buffs alike can have fun with.  Moreover, her multilayered paintings offer plenty of food for thought.” 

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