Margaret Savage
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Artist Statement
My still life paintings are the result of both observation and imagination. Influenced by travel, education, and art history, my work reflects my thoughts, dreams, and experience and this is what an artist brings to a painting.
The objects and shapes have a personal meaning or are are result of the painting process as I search for space and unity. I am interested in the shifts that color creates in space and in the fracturing of light on objects.
My work is about paint and the joy I find in the process. If there appears to be a narrative or a message, it is not a conscious intention. The associations that appear are in color and shape and, on a deeper level, perhaps autobiographical, but they are not the initial impulse for the painting.
Education
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA BFA in Painting, 1979
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1950-52, Fine Arts, French
Group Exhibitions
St. Dunstan's Red Door Gallery Invitational, Dover, MA 2005
Savage/Savage, Blanchard Trust Gallery, Concord, MA 2004
St. Dunstan's Red Door Gallery Invitational, Dover, MA 2004
Concord Art Invitational, Concord, MA 2004
Emerson Umbrella, Concord, MA This Is Provence, 2001
DeCordova Faculty Show, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA 2001
Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Boston, MA 1993
Blanchard Trust Gallery, Concord, MA, Then and Now, 1991
Bentley College, Waltham, MA, New England Artists, 1991
Powers Gallery, Acton, MA, Eastern Influences, 1990
University Place, Ross/Savage/Sprayregan, Cambridge, MA, 1990
The Field Gallery, Light Water Sky, Martha's Vineyard, MA, 1989
Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Boston, MA, Cambridge at the Fed, 1989
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Through the Looking Glass, 1989
Juror: Alan Shestack, Director, MFA. Painting purchased for a traveling exhibition through US and abroad
teaching
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
- Instructor of watercolor for beginning to intermediate students from 1987 to 2002
- Docent from 1986 to 1989
Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts, Concord, MA
- Instructor: Intermediate Watercolor
- Current member of Faculty since 1984