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Academic Level at Time of Creation
Senior
Date of Creation
Fall 2019
Artist Statement
Cameron Savage
BFA: Printmaker
Scientists can trace the modern human’s beginnings to western Africa and map out migrations that moved hominids into the rest of the world. Mankind traversed a vast and unknown wilderness for the pursuit of food and resources. We have always been explorers, desperately searching for anything new. I’m interested in mankind’s thirst for knowledge of the unknown, and the possibilities that exist outside our little blue rock. Will Earth’s resources eventually be exhausted? Are other planets suitable for the continuation of humanity? Can civilization exist outside our solar system?
Contemplating these questions and being influenced by science fiction pop-culture, I explore color and imagined landscapes. Fictional landscapes and geometric forms contrast and engage one another in my work. The work displays a constant tension between “man-made” structures and their impact on naturally formed structures. Since my forms are fictional, they are untethered from reality, allowing a nearly endless amount of freedom. I’m heavily inspired by album cover art and poster designs by artists like Dan Mumford, Luke Preece, and Rickey Beckett.
My medium of choice is screen printing, which allows me to access vivid colors and stylized mark-making, resembling the graphic nature of posters. Like Cecily Brown, I too use a vibrant color palette and an extensive amount of forms to engage a composition. The prints present exotic contrasting colors and deep landscapes that allow the viewer to travel to strange, alien lands.
Advisor/Mentor
Nicole Hand-Bryant
Description
Cameron Savage Works
Hollow, Screen Print, 2019.
18”x24”
Insurance Value: $100
Portal (Flat), Screen Print, 2019.
11”x14”
Insurance Value: $25
Parasitic, Etching, 2019.
11”x14”
Insurance Value: $30
Too Good to Be True, Screen Print, 2019.
11”x14”
Insurance Value: $25
Intervals, Etching, 2019.
10”x14”
Insurance Value: $20
Remains, Screen Print, 2019.
20”x 26”
Insurance Value: $120
Intervals (Yellow), Screen print and etching, 2019.
10”x14”
Insurance value: $20
Intervals (Gradient), Screen print and etching, 2019.
10”x14”
Insurance Value: $20
Intervals (Blue), Screen print and etching, 2019.
10”x14”
Insurance Value: $20
Intervals (Pink), Screen printing and etching, 2019.
10”x14”
Insurance Value: $20
Hollow, Screen print, 2019.
18”x24”
Detail
Hollow (RED), Screen print, 2019.
18”x24”
Detail
Intervals (Blue), Screen print and etching, 2019.
10”x14”
Detail
Parasitic, Etching, 2019.
11”x14”
Detail
Parasitic, Etching, 2019.
11”x14”
Detail
Portal (Lifted), Screen print, 2019.
11”x14”
Insurance value: $30
Portal (Lifted), Screen print, 2019
11”x14”
Detail.
Portal (Lifted), Screenprint, 2019
11”x14”
Detail
Remains, Screenprint, 2019.
20”x26”
Detail
Hollow, Screenprint, 2019.
18”x24”
Detail
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Savage, Cameron, "Cameron Savage Fall 2019" (2019). Professional Practices (ART 399). 80.
https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/art399/80