Sam Filicky

Studio Member since 2021

b. 1999

Sam Filicky’s work embodies the romanticism of traditional landscape painting and an appreciation for the beauty found in the natural world. Filicky’s primary inspirations include landscapes, seascapes, abstraction, and the joy of the creative process. His soft, atmospheric landscapes aspire to capture a particular feeling or tone, whether that of a particular season, element of nature, or hazy memory of a terrain once visited. He routinely alternates between painting and drawing, gradually building each composition through a layering of different media on the surface. Filicky’s paintings are defined by bold brushstrokes – fluctuating between quick and gestural or long and meandering – and a wet on wet mixing of vibrant or muted acrylics.

“I have a routine where I do drawing in the morning, painting in the afternoon. I would say I like both painting and drawing equally. Rotating. I like using paint and graphite, those are my number one materials.”