Huseyin Sami: PAINTERIAM

HUSEYIN SAMI — PAINTERIAM

22 August – 12 September 2026 at SYRUP, 20 Farr Street, Marrickville. Thursday – Saturday, 11am–4pm. (SYRUP 020. Concurrent with Tara Denny's HORROR VACUI.)

PAINTERIAM brings together a new body of works that extends Huseyin Sami's ongoing investigation into the material and conceptual possibilities of painting. Working primarily with household paint, Sami explores how colour, surface, and process can move beyond representation to become physical events and spatial objects in themselves. Through acts of pouring, stretching, layering, cutting, and accumulation, paint is treated not simply as a vehicle for image-making, but as an active material capable of generating its own forms, tensions, and behaviours. The resulting works occupy a space between painting and object, where gesture, gravity, chance, and duration remain visibly embedded within the final compositions.

BIO

Huseyin Sami (born England, 1979) lives and works in Sydney. His practice is centred on an ongoing enquiry into the conditions, possibilities, and rearticulation of painting. Working predominantly with household paint, Sami has developed a distinctive material language exploring colour, form, surface and materiality through acts of pouring, dripping, rolling, stretching, cutting, and layering.

Sami completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts with First Class Honours at Sydney College of the Arts (2000), followed by a Master of Visual Arts (2003). His work has been exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, including Equal Area at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (2018), Superposition of Three Types at Artspace (2017), Shut Up and Paint at the NGV (2016), Vivid at the MCA (2016) and Primavera at the MCA (2004). In 2023, Sami released his first monograph surveying three decades of practice. His work is held in collections including Artbank, the MCA, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the NGV.