| 词条 | Tom Savage (painter) |
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Critical debateThe primal, unconscious and disharmonious nature of Savage's technique, which the artist himself has described as the antithesis of that of regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton,[2] has proven an interpretive challenge for critics. In his Los Angeles Times review of Savage's 1995 solo exhibition at the Cirrus Gallery in Los Angeles, critic David Pagel described the artist's works as "raw, incoherent, precarious and daring. At the same time, they're confident and desperate, riddled with deep doubts but also profoundly self-assured."[3] Writing of the same show in the national West Coast contemporary art review Artweek, critic Peter Kosenko characterized Savage's paintings as "abstract and generally impressionistic, but they nonetheless resist placement within the traditions of abstract expressionism as codified by formalist criticism, for they display little of the angst-ridden struggle with paint or the preoccupation with the sublime that often characterize the strategies of the genre."[4] Critic David DiMichele of the Los Angeles Downtown News, noting Savage's use of unprimed canvas and "thinly applied traceries," wrote that the artist's style is "marked by a pronounced sense of restraint.... Emphatically abstract, his work seeks to preserve something of the initial excitement that occurs when an artist first puts brush to canvas."[5] Revisiting Savage's work at the August 1996 exhibition Transcendental Meditations at the William Turner Gallery in Venice, California, Los Angeles Times critic David Pagel observed that the artist's "inarticulate markings, crudely painted and scrawled on raw canvas, share more with children's drawings than with any desire to leave this world behind."[6] List of major works
Museum collectionsTom Savage's work is in the following institutional collections:[7]
Selected exhibitionsSavage's solo exhibitions include:
References1. ^Tom Savage biography, Artnet 2. ^From the documentary short film {{YouTube|h6QWapx-gLw|Tom Savage: Visual Poetics}}, October 2008 3. ^"Abstract Contradictions," by David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, March 30, 1995 4. ^"Tom Savage at Cirrus," by Peter Kosenko, Artweek, Vol. 26, No. 5, May 1995 5. ^"Image Makers: L.A. Artists Return to Abstraction," by David DiMichele, Los Angeles Downtown News, April 17, 1995 6. ^"Contemplative," by David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, August 22, 1996 7. ^Tom Savage, Paintings & Works on Paper (official site) External links
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