





Bash Bish Falls
2022
A cascade of soft, luminous color suffuses "Bash Bish Falls," a 2022 pigment-on-canvas work by Sam Falls that measures 111.8 × 106.7 cm. The piece takes its name from the storied waterfall straddling the Massachusetts-New York border, and Falls channels that natural site through his signature process of laying pigment directly onto canvas outdoors, allowing weather, moisture, and organic matter to participate in the image's formation. The result is a surface that feels simultaneously primordial and delicate, with pooling tones that shift from verdant greens into pale, airy passages, evoking the diffuse light and perpetual movement of water over stone. Falls occupies a distinctive position in contemporary painting precisely because his work collapses the boundary between landscape and abstraction without fully surrendering to either. The pigment does not merely represent the fall's environment; it carries a physical memory of it, having been conditioned by the actual conditions of that place. This lends "Bash Bish Falls" an indexical quality that purely studio-based works rarely achieve, grounding its lyrical surfaces in something tactile and witnessed rather than merely imagined. Available through Jessica Silverman, the work is signed and offered unframed, allowing the collector flexibility in presentation. At roughly 112 by 107 centimeters, it carries an intimate yet commanding presence well suited to a considered domestic or institutional setting. Falls has been widely exhibited and collected internationally, and works from this body of practice are increasingly sought after for the quiet conceptual rigor they bring to questions of environment, process, and the painted record of place.
- Medium
- Pigment on canvas
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Jessica SilvermanView on map
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