SAM CADY

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Born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine and raised in a leafy suburb of Boston, Sam Cady is a self described New Englander.  After receiving a BA at the University of New Hampshire (1965) and a MFA at Indiana University  (1967), Cady taught art for 2 years in New Hampshire before moving to New York City in 1969.  He lived and worked on the lower east side of Manhattan and in Hoboken, NJ for most of the next 30 years exhibiting his work and teaching in the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts.  With exposure to all the “isms” of recent American art he found his way with realism, pop, and minimalist influences from Hopper, Oldenburg and Kelly often with shaped or cutout oil on canvas images of bits and pieces of the everyday world.  His first major exposure was in the 1975 Whitney Museum Biennial and continued along with regular gallery exhibitions in NY, Boston and Rockland, Maine with other museum and gallery shows around the country and in Japan.  After being in the city for 30 years he moved to Friendship, Maine (where he had summered as a child) in 2000, built a studio and continued to work, exhibit, and teach.  He is in many private, corporate, and museum collections around the country and was the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant and a American Academy of Arts and Letters purchase prize.  His aim throughout has been to explore and celebrate both the constructed and natural worlds that we are all surrounded by.