Alex Bacon interviews artist Sam Moyer on the occasion of her show More Weight at Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, on view through June 22, 2014.
Moyer comments: " 'Actually I’m not,' [a process-based artist] because when I make my work I’m not thinking about how I want everyone to visualize me in my overalls dying this fabric outside. It’s not about that. When I hang the piece on the wall I’m not trying to get you to imagine me making it. I’m really trying to make the piece on the wall provide a surface that’s subjective, that you can bring your own stuff to… The action behind my work is referential to printmaking and photography, and that helps to see there is a process to it, but it’s not about my performance of the process…"