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Perspectives
SAMDI
$3,000
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Size
- 16 × 20 in
- Year
- 2022
- Price
- $3,000
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About the work
Profiles and frontal faces offer different angles on a shared space. The heads keep our view in motion, one outline leading towards another. Looking becomes a series of small turns through the company, with each presence changing what we notice in its neighbours. The pleasure lies in holding those different views together without making them all the same.
Three dark figures use overlapping brown, black and violet shapes against blue, white, pink and red blocks. White spirals mark outer eyes. A green bottle stands beside a red dish.
About the artist
SAMDI is the name Xavier Delatour paints under. He is a contemporary Haitian artist based in Miami, Florida, and a grandson of Carmel Delatour, who founded Rainbow Art Display in her home in 1972. He describes his work as Sen Soley: painting from a rhythm, in a space where the self looks inward and the possibilities are endless. His paintings combine cubist-style portraits with a semi-abstract approach to figuration, and at their core are self-exploration and the understanding of the spirit. They can reflect deep emotional trauma and at the same time express the beauty of love, and they leave viewers to look inward and make their own sense of what they see and feel. His group exhibitions include CORNERSTONE (Paris Texas LA Gallery, Los Angeles, 2018), Carifesta (National Museum and Art Gallery, Trinidad and Tobago, 2018), Roots of the Spirit (ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale, 2019) and Surface Issues (MOCA, North Miami, 2019). His latest works are in Stanek Gallery's show What We Carry in Miami, from September 18 to November 7, 2026.