Samantha Hookway Studio 128 www.samanthahookway.com samanthahookway@gmail.com

Samantha Hookway received her MFA in 2010 from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. as a University Fellowship recipient, and her BFA from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.  Hookway also studied in the sculpture department at Kungliga Konsthögskolan (The Royal University College of Fine Art) in Stockholm, Sweden (2006-08), and workshops at Penland School for Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School and The Glass Furnace of Instanbul, Turkey. She has participated Museum of Arts and Design Open-Studio Residency Program in New York, New York (2010), the Vermont Studio Center Residency (2011), Belden Brick Artist-in-Industry Program, in Sugarcreek, Ohio (2009 & 2010) and as Artist-in-Resident at the Public Art Academy, Williamsport, Pennsylvania (2011). Hookway has exhibited her work both internationally and nationally–most notably at Galleri Mejan in Stockholm, Sweden, Galleri Blunk in Trondheim, Norway, the Gray Area of Crane Arts in Philadelphia, PA, Roy G. Biv Gallery in Columbus, OH and the Open Studio on the 6th Floor of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York.

Hookway's work explores and redefines the idea of the window in the contemporary world.  Windows metaphorically and literally act as a space located between two defined worlds. The window's potency is the capacity to simultaneously reveal or block one space from another. Typically, her windows are really not windows at all. They are allusions to windows – interstitial spaces metamorphosed into sculptural hybrids of stained glass windows and something else entirely. The goal of her work is to explore and unlock this window between spaces, while concurrently investigating ideas of culture. Most recently, she has made works that allow the idea of stained glass windows the ability to flutter or fly.