About the Artist
Samantha White is a multimedia artist based in Westminster, Maryland. She will graduate from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2025 with a Bachelor’s degree in Art with a minor in Educational Studies. The themes of her art range from extremely personal to outwardly political; regardless, she almost always addresses the human body and what it means to be confined to a physical vessel in her work. In 2025, her series A Comprehensive Guide to the Female Body was shown in the Annual All Student Show at the Dwight Frederic Boyden Gallery. Samantha has also worked as a gallery assistant at Boyden since September of 2023. After graduation, she plans on continuing her art journey by pursuing freelance opportunities.Featured Work
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Featured Work: Photos
Fig. 1.
Graphite dust and digital print on watercolor paper overlaid with digital print on transparency film
2024
In the first piece of my series A Comprehensive Guide to the Female Body, I wanted to highlight the seemingly universal tendency to underutilize females of any species in clinical trials; to do so, I combined animal and human traits together, which also serves to reflects my feelings of unease in relation to this oversight in medical research. In combination with the sterile medical imagery and textbook labels, the overall imagery is startling and disturbing even if potential viewers are unaware of what this body of work actually represents.
Fig. 2.
Graphite dust and digital print on watercolor paper overlaid with digital print on transparency film
2024
In the second piece of my series A Comprehensive Guide to the Female Body, I continued the trend of melding animal and human features together, but I purposefully made the traits of the former a bit more subtle in order to bring attention to the anatomical imagery centered within the picture plane. The bright colored transparencies laid on top of each piece also serve to highlight said imagery; great emphasis is being placed upon the lie presented to the viewer, but due to the ethos established by the textbook style labels and appropriated elements, it can be easy to take the diagram at face value.
Fig. 3.
Graphite dust and digital print on watercolor paper overlaid with digital print on transparency film
2024
I felt it was important to make this piece the final of the three in my series A Comprehensive Guide to the Female Body because it addresses both the discourse surrounding the representation of women in clinical trials (like the rat head in Fig. 1., the rat tail is obvious animal imagery being combined with feminine features) and the idea that information being released to the public about our bodies may not always be fully researched (which is conveyed via the misplaced anatomical imagery with accompanying labels). Essentially, it sums up the whole meaning behind my project and creates a clear link between the first two pieces in the triptych.