Art Professor to Exhibit Paintings at LACMA

Susan Savage, associate professor of art, will show her paintings in the Art Rental and Sales Gallery (ARSG) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Friday, Sept. 15-Oct. 26. An opening reception will be held Friday, Sept. 15 at 6:30 p.m.

Savage will be exhibiting with three other artists in the gallery during the fall season. She says she’s excited about the opportunity to bring the sacred into the secular.

“My images strive to reproduce the look of the visible world,” says Savage, “yet offer something beyond mere physical appearances in revealing deeper messages of spiritual truths.”
Savage earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at UC Santa Barbara. She came to Westmont in 1991 and has also taught at La Colina Junior High School and Santa Barbara City College.

She says she’s is intrigued with the humble beauty and quiet simplicity found in common, ordinary objects, like a silver bowl.

“I attempt to portray something that isn't visibly in place,” she says, “but can become evident if one takes the time to ponder the relationships that are presented. In this context, the vessel stands as a witness to something larger than its temporary and finite physical form.

“Thus, as a source for the sacred, I desire that silence, solitude, and simplicity work together to reveal something mysterious and significant about these images, even if one has no verbal explanation for them.”

The ARSG is located on the lower level of the Leo S. Bing Center at LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. The gallery is open Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.