Biography

Sam Rashba creates artwork that evokes a sense of harmony between the built and natural world, mainly working with watercolor and charcoal. He is very intrigued by abundant organic forms and scenes that express untamed vitality and intricacy.

While Rashba’s artistic practice is anchored in tight rendering, over time he has integrated more expressive and suggestive mark-making into his pieces. Pulling from his background in filmmaking, he aims to create emotional yet ambiguous compositions that reveal fragments of kinetic and unsettled subjects. He applies this approach to representations of architecture, natural landscapes, the human figure and wildlife.

Rashba has been drawing and painting since he was a child, and more fully nurtured his artistic skills in the Visual Arts program at Harvard College, where he was also an illustrator for the Harvard Lampoon Magazine. He later attended the AFI Conservatory where he received his MFA in Production Design. Rashba lives and works in Los Angeles, where he also uses his creative muscles as a set designer and art director for the film industry. You can see his work in that realm at his other website www.samrashba.com.

Questions? Drop me a line at sam@rashbafineart.com