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I have a working theory that the present doesnвЂ™t exist, that there is just the movement from the past into the future, and we can kind of throw these things down that link the two together. ItвЂ™s a compression of hours, days, months into a singular object. Drawing in itself is a reference to time. There are oblique references to time in the show. View of вЂњSam Roeck, Sam Roeck.,вЂќ 2021, OCDChinatown, New York. But I can now objectively edit those photos in a way that I could not have done at the time. I now have distance from this work, having lived twenty years after making it and now looking at it again. I also realize that that sixteen-year-oldвЂ™s head would explode if he knew that he was having a show as an adult in Chinatown.

I think having those portraits that I made when I was sixteen in the show makes me feel like I can be more vulnerable with what IвЂ™m making now. So thatвЂ™s the thing: I get to add the thinking now. My nephew has a chart showing various facial expressions and I feel like thatвЂ™s a lot of what being sixteen is about, like, I have this feeling, now what do I do with it? So much feeling in those images, not a lot of thinking. IвЂ™m acting melancholy or sad or pouty or pensive but I also know that I was those things. IвЂ™m acting in them but behind that acting there is also something genuine.

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The photos themselves are completely rooted in 2001-the upstairs of my parentвЂ™s house, being sixteen and full of feelings and really thinking that these photos were going to express those feelings. I would lay on my daybed and look at the drawings while I was doing therapy and figuring out what was wrong with me, both in my mind and in the drawings. I was doing Zoom therapy in that room as well. All the drawings that are in the show were hanging on the wall of my studio while I was working on them. ItвЂ™s so deeply embedded in my mind: You take the diagonal and multiply it by three and then thatвЂ™s where I stand. I had an art teacher in high school who told me this mathematical formula for how far back from a work of art youвЂ™re supposed to stand. All of those things were still very present in my mind during the editing of these photos and also now in making anything. We had this photography book that said there are three types of composition that you can use, and you have to have a bright white and a dark black, and a big range of grays.

He was a photographer when he was younger, and we had some photos of his hanging in our house. I had taken an intro to darkroom photography class in high school and then the summer after I was just playing with my dadвЂ™s Pentax camera. I TOOK THE PHOTOS in this show when I was sixteen. The show gives an intimate look at the practice of an artist who splits his time between managing Nicole EisenmanвЂ™s studio and teaching drawing at Hunter College. The small gallery also houses two inverted sculptures of staircases replicated from RoeckвЂ™s childhood home in Chicago, emphasizing the cozy and claustrophobic work of exploring the self. Sam RoeckвЂ™s second solo exhibition at New YorkвЂ™s OCDChinatown, вЂњSam Roeck, Sam Roeck.,вЂќ features a dozen black-and-white photographs of the artist at sixteen along with eighteen new graphite self-portraits the thirty-six-year-old completed during quarantine.

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