BIO de BIO
Samantha A Meyers aka RUBYSPAM was born in Dodge City, Kansas on
December 22, 1976. Due to the epidemic of small town boredom and
divorce, she moved to Canada with her mother at the age of 5.
Eventually at a young age she was left with no parents and only one
outlet for expression: Art. Later in life she gained a Bachelor’s
Degree in Fine Art at The Ontario Collage of Art and Design in Toronto,
Canada and a Business Certificate for Business and Entrepreneurship at
St. Clair Collage in Windsor, Canada. Wanting to expand her career as
an artist, she and her boyfriend packed up the car and drove across the
country to the west coast of California and set up permanent residence
in San Francisco. She is now a full time artist working out of Art
Explosion Studios where all of her subject matter has deep emotion and
intellectual thought process through her many life experiences called
luggage. Thank God the car was big enough to hold it all.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My art derives from an area of myself that will always evolve with
time and exposure. It will continue to amalgamate into deeper yet
simpler areas which in turn, is the most complicated.
Aside from acrylic and watercolour, I choose to go outside my normal
realm of materials. I use certain types of food, liqueurs, wine, and
other beverages that will heighten the message, whether it be subtle or
not, to bring the connection from art to viewer to a more closer level.
"I'm in a state of over saturated reality which doesn't constitute
itself as normal therefore characterizing it as non-reality; therefore,
I am". -RUBYSPAM-
US Exhibitions
2009 Art Explosion Studios San Francisco, CA Open Studios
Canadian Exhibitions
2008 Midoco Art Toronto, ON Group Show
2006 OCAD Toronto, ON End of Year Exhibition
2006 OCAD Print Exchange Toronto, ON Group Show
2005 Concordia University Montreal, QUE Group Show
2005 Transit Space Gallery Toronto, ON Group Show
2005 Le Gallery Toronto, ON Group Show
2005 Javaville Café Toronto, ON Solo
2004 Belleville Library Belleville, ON Group Show
2004 Javaville Cafe Toronto, ON Solo
EDUCATION
2006 Bachelor of Fine Art Degree, Ontario College of Art and Design
1999 Certificate of Business and Entrepreneurship, St. Clair College