Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Sam Wenc (b. 1990; Western Massachusetts) is a composer and interdisciplinary artist often working with sound, text, and fabric. As a multi-instrumentalist, he utilizes guitar, pedal steel guitar, vibraphone, electronics, field recordings, and found objects to compose structured and formless work that is curious about concepts of what constitutes “folk" music. He has released music on labels such as Noumenal Loom, Obsolete Stairases, Where to Now (UK) his own label, Lobby Art Editions, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Music & Sound at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College
SELECTED WORKS
2022:
- "All My Favorite Singers Couldn't Sing"
- sound, sculpture, and textile installation at Bard College
- "As Blood Turns to Beer, The Body a Busted Souvenir" & "The Range of Space Afforded the Edge Between the Stove, the Counter, and the Floor is Vast and Open"
- textile installation at Bard College
- "Heart Music"
- 2xLP released via Where to Now? Records
2020
- “Cut Into Your Own Dimension"
- LP released via Noumenal Loom
- "What Can the Feeling"
- LP released via Moon Villain
2019
- "For Vibraphone, Bowed Banjo, Synthesizer, Nylon String Guitar"
- single released via Lobby Art Editions
- "No Dignity in Haste"
- LP released via Obsolete Staircases
SELECTED PRESS
"the singular music of pedal steel guitarist, Sam Wenc...takes an instrument that is usually associated in a cliche way and turns it into something very atmospheric and expansive" - John Schaefer, WNYC
"New Avant-Americana horizons from Sam Wenc’s Post Moves, meshing folk music with aspects of spiritual jazz, post-rock and avant minimalism in a way that beautifully transcends the sum of its parts." - Boomkat
"Composer and multi-instrumentalist Sam Wenc (aka Post Moves) deconstructs folk and film music idioms on this dense, beautiful new LP" - Bandcamp
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2022
- Composer-in-residence; Elektronmusikstudion, EMS
- Bard MFA Fellowship
2021
- Steel Guitar Unconvention - First Runner Up; Brooklyn, NY
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021
- Old Saw “Country Tropics”
- album design, production, and distribution
- Ben Varian “One Hundred Breakfasts With The Book”
- album design, production, and distribution
2020
- Dylan M. Howe “Southern Gap”
- album design, production, and distribution