Celebrating Color

Lobby Gallery 

1133 Avenue of the Americas 

(Btw 43rd and 44th St)

New York, NY 

 

May 28 - August 15, 2013

 

Opening Reception:
Thursday, May 30, 6 - 8 p.m. 

 

Gallery Hours:

Monday - Friday, 8am - 7pm

 

Joy Saville's fabric constructions begin with explorations of color; translating her experiences with nature, landscapes, theater and other arts into a visual statement. As the process of combining the individual pieces unfolds, she has found that each work has "it's own way of coming together and evolving," feeling a "quality of rightness or essentialness at each stage of the construction process" that involves her "intellectually, physically and spiritually."

 

Saville began focusing on color in 1982, and in her recent work she uses those thirty-one years of experience to move beyond the physical qualities of the construction. These pieces delve into the temporal and emotional realms of their creation, specifically, the "feelings of connection, interaction, and recognition that happen in the moments when time stands still, moments that often occur when I am focused on my work; I am centered, but very much aware, as if in meditation."

 

"The energy of this stillness encircles me. It is this contradiction between the quietness of the moment and my awareness of the change implied by the existence of the moment, that fuels the creation of the work."

 

Her deep connection to the art form reaches back into her childhood, where under the tutelage of her mother and paternal grandmother, she began working with fabric and the sewing machine. These early experiences laid the ground work for a life-changing decision in the 70s, when Saville, a practicing nurse at the time, decided to pursue art instead of continuing her medical studies to become a doctor. She has a deep need to be creative, and has found that her process and practice of art contains echoes of her practice of medicine. "A medical diagnosis is often made through 'problem solving' which is an approach I intuitively use with my work... in that process, color and fabric became my focus... I explore the limits of what can be done by piecing fabric to orchestrate the color and express a concept."

 

Saville's work is in the collections of The Museum of Arts & Design; The Newark Museum; Southfield Public Library; and in numerous private and corporate collections, including Bristol-Myers Squibb; HBO/Time Warner; Wilmington Trust; H. J. Heinz; Johnson & Johnson; Pepsico. Commissions include The Jewish Center, Princeton; Art in Embassies 2000, Brunei and 2008, Namibia; Johnson & Johnson; Ortho Pharmaceutical. She has been published in numerous anthologies and reviewed in The Surface Design Journal, Home Textiles Today, Fiberarts and The New York Times.

 

For Sales and Information: 

joysaville@comcast.net

609-924-6824

 

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