Dot Fiftyone Gallery is pleased to announce Now, Voyager, Anastasia Samoylova’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Featuring an entirely new and previously unseen body of work, the exhibition continues Samoylova’s exploration of the American landscape as both
image and ideology.
Now, Voyager
In Now, Voyager, Samoylova extends her photographic language into the territory of painting—and of reckoning. These hybrid works, formed by overlaying photographs with poured and dripped paint, inhabit a charged space between document and abstraction, between the seen and the felt. Taking its title from Walt Whitman’s exhortation, “Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find,” the series follows the artist’s ongoing search for
meaning within the shifting image of America.
Where earlier projects—FloodZone, Floridas, Image Cities, and Atlantic Coast—mapped how ideology and desire shape the visual landscape, Now, Voyager turns inward. Here,
paint moves across the photographic surface like weather: flooding, obscuring, illuminating. The gesture transforms the image into something volatile and alive, a metaphor for both
renewal and erasure.
The works oscillate between lushness and abrasion: a peacock’s plume dissolves into a storm of white pigment; a veteran salutes amid roses; a roadside room bears the inscription, “Life is like photography, we develop”; a tattered flag and a graffitied sofa evoke private histories of longing and loss. Each piece becomes a meditation on what endures when ideals falter—how beauty and disillusionment coexist in the same frame.
In dialogue with Rauschenberg, Richter, and Polke, Samoylova’s overpainted photographs
resist both cynicism and nostalgia. They propose instead a form of seeing that is restless and searching—a voyaging through the emotional and symbolic terrain of a country still in
the process of defining itself.
Dot Fiftyone is a Miami based gallery with a focus on contemporary Latin American art. Founded in 2003 by Alfredo Guzman and Isaac Perelman, the gallery is dedicated to exhibiting emerging and established artists whose works encourage dynamic ideas and discourses. Workshops, lectures, events, as well as philanthropy are also part of the gallery program.
Mr. Perelman, former President of the Miami Art Dealers Association (MADA), and Mr. Guzman, former chairman on the Board of the Wynwood Arts District Association (WADA), have reinforced their involvement in the development of the arts in the city.
Dot Fiftyone enjoys a strong collector base in Miami, New York, Houston, Los Angeles, and Latin America.
