Caroline E. Savage

 
 

My studio practice investigates time-based media and photography, with imagery of time, light and space that explores natural beauty and the random clarity of light. I exhibit my work as prints and as 16mm film and digital video. My influences are Mark Rothko, Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand, Gunvor Nelson Jan Van Eyck, Rembrandt, Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Irwin.


My photowork derives from the Dutch still life tradition, American Trompe l’oeil painting and Abstract Expressionism. They are a reduction of the still life arrangement to a single object that references the social context of the discarded.


My film and video practice uses home movie footage and hand-processed celluloid film to create a collage of color and sound fragments that evoke a time and place. Generally, I investigate how  light illuminates space and utilize musical language such as form, notation, counterpoint, pace, syncopation and style to make unique visual and aural experiences. My work is always about observation and recontextualiztion. I make work for the conventional exhibition spaces as well as installations.

 

Artist Statement