Lucas Samaras
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Lucas Samaras (1936 - 2024) was a Greek artist.
He studied at Rutgers University on a scholarship, where he met Allan Kaprow and George Segal.
While at Rutgers, he joined Gamma Sigma (Rutgers). He participated in Kaprow's "Happenings," and posed for Segal's plastic sculptures.
Claes Oldenberg, whose Happenings he also participated in, later referred to Samaras as one of the "New Jersey school," which also included Kaprow, Segal, George Brecht, Robert Whitman, Robert Watts, Geoffrey Hendricks and Roy Lichtenstein.
Samaras worked in painting, sculpture, and performance art, before beginning work in photography.
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