Autumn Samone (she/they) uses their identities as a neurodivergent black person to explore tensions existing in, and pushing against, systems that are designed to contain an individual's state of being. By its nature, the constant flux between being inside and outside a system unfolds itself in her art practice. Themes of absence and porous confinement are emergent, mirroring lived experiences of internal conflict and eternal curiosity. Architectonic motifs, pseudo-spatial imagery and flesh adjacents serve as proxies that are used to invite and release the material conditions of the psyche’s tenuous existence.
Autumn was a previous University of Virginia (UVa) Aunspaugh Fellow & MASS MoCA Fellow, and graduated from UVa with a B.A. in Studio Art in 2024