BIO

Bouncing around a dusty dirt road in Georgia, a young Suzy rides in the truck with her mom. Loaded with a cooler in the back, her mom pulls over, collecting a carcass to go to the taxidermist.  Suzy’s home, road kill ranch, is home to taxidermy road kill, dogs, brothers, a peacock, horses, and a pig named Barbeque. 
            Years later she is standing in a small maasai village in Kenya made up of mud huts.  Flies swarming, one of the warriors walks out with a cow for a blood letting ceremony. The neck is punctured with a dull blade, letting the blood seep into a gourd filled with cows milk and urine.  
            These unique experiences spurred Suzy’s curiosity of death, life, rebirth and humans connection to nature.  Fascinated by the complexity of life, she has worked with a variety of materials included animal parts to explore the creative process. 
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Suzy Savoy
suzysavoyart@gmail.com
303-263-2898
 
 
EDUCATION
2009-2010                Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design; Denver, Colorado
                                    Bachelor of Fine Arts; Painting          
2004-2007               Savannah College of Art and Design; Savannah, Georgia     
2003-2004               Front Range Community College; Longmont, Colorado
 
                                                           
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
May 2017                   What I Saw When My Eyes Went Wild; Gallery 51;Denver, Colorado
July 2016                    Antique Revival; Next Gallery; Denver, Colorado
March 2015               Beautiful Imperfections; Next Gallery: Denver, Colorado
March 2014               Aerial Voyage; Next Gallery; Denver, Colorado
April 2011                   Hidden Treasures; Next Gallery; Denver, Colorado
June 2010                  Reflective Impact; Next Gallery; Denver, Colorado  
 
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
April 2018                 Same Same; Gallery 66; San Fidel, New Mexico            
March 2018              Form on Form; Gallery 66; San Fidel, New Mexico  
February 2018          Pink Palace; Next Gallery; Denver, Colorado
October 2017           Obscura (two person show); C2 Gallery; Denver,Colorado
May 2017                  Biennale National Juried Exhibition 2017; Art League of Hilton Head; 
                                  Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
October 2016           Members Show; Next Gallery; Denver, Colorado
January 2016            Ice Breakers; Ice Cube Gallery: Denver, Colorado
October 2015           Halloween Show; Next Gallery; Denver, Colorado
August 2015             Mail Art Show; Next Gallery; Denver, Colorado
December 2014       Holiday Show; Next Gallery; Denver, Colorado
November 2014       Collaboration Show; Next Gallery; Denver, Colorado
August 2014             Denver Modernism Art Show; Denver, Colorado
August 2014             Denver County Fair Art Show; Denver, Colorado
December 2013      Holiday Show; Next Gallery; Denver, Colorado
July 2011                   USA Pro Cycling Challenge Bike Art; Denver International Airport; Denver, Colorado
December 2010      Rocky Mountain College Of Art and Design; Graduation Show; Denver, Colorado
March 2010             Maximum Birth; Kanon Gallery; Denver, Colorado                                        
February 2010         The Love Show; Core New Art Space; Denver, Colorado
January 2010           The Member Show; Next Gallery; Denver, Colorado 
November 2009     Day of The Dead Show; Pirate; Denver, Colorado
September 2009    The Abstract Show; Core New Art Space; Denver, Colorado 
                                  
 
WORK EXPERIENCE
2011-2012                 Thierry Goldberg Projects Internship; New York, NY
May-Dec 2010        Plus Gallery Internship; Denver, Colorado
April 2010                Catherine Widgery Assistant; Denver, Colorado
 
CURATOR
March 2014              Healing Passages; Healing Arts Oncology Program; Next Gallery; Denver, Colorado
 
VOLUNTEER
2013-2016                Healing Arts Program, Pediatrics and Oncology; Presbyterian and St. Luke’s Hospital; Denver, Colorado
 2013-Present          Bridges to Patient Empowerment; Denver, Colorado
 
PRESS & PUBLICATION
July 2011                    Pro Cycling ‘Bike Art’ Challenge Channel 9 Metro Mix
2011                           Art Takes Miami Publication
 
 
CO-OPS & MEMBERSHIPS
2009-Present         Next Gallery; Co-director; Denver, Colorado
2009-2010              Kanon Gallery; Denver, Colorado
2006-Present         Denver Art Museum; Denver, Colorado
 
 


2018 CURRENT BODY OF WORK

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​            Standing in a crowd, the pit in your stomach grows, unable to speak—a screaming in your soul, so desperate for someone to see you, to notice that you cannot breathe.  Loneliness is a dark, damp cave that feeds on your despair; growing more intense every moment, suffocating you with isolation.  
            In those familiarmoments, I reached for color, Igrasped at life. I began to create a world I could escape. Warm and cool tones became my voice. Tiny gold beads of coloremerged as a representation of an unnoticedmagic that exists in the seconds before life’s monumental moments—when the universe and all its components slow tosynchronizeddrumming. Your heart races and stops simultaneously. There is a stillness between breaths.  There is hope.  
            Creating became my friend, my therapist, my lover, my soulmate.  It has been my companion in the cave.  But unexpectedly it also became the catalyst that forced me out into the crowd.  As I tried to escape from the harshness of this world, it brought me back and rooted me into the center of it all.  In this space,there is electricity that comes from the earth and connects you entirelyto the universe.  In this space, you can peer into one’s soul and become aligned to the ancient elements of existence.  
            At times it can be challenging—I try to run away from it.  Through my determination to have a career as an artist, I have created a community of beautifully odd, expressive people.  I have found a world where others can hear my screams and I can hear theirs.  We don’t run from the dark lonelinessbut explore it together.  
            My art is no longer an escape, a place for me to run away.  My work has transformed into a platform which brings people, even for the simple act of observing a painting.  If you are hurting, alone, or looking for more, you can join me in this place to heal and cry and love and laugh.  

BODY OF WORK (PAST EXHIBITIONS)

What I Saw When My Eyes Went Wild

2017
The nights draw out into a restless battle. The heat and humidity cling onto you with the desperation of a drowning man. It seeps into the depths of your marrow. Beads of sweat work across glistening skin as drenched sheets tangle themselves, trying to ring the remaining life out of you.
 
Images of creatures that hide in the darkness, craw and slither over the pillows, and through your matted hair. Hoping to escape the horrors, you open your heavy eyes but they refuse to disappear. The flash of lightening relieves the fear for an instant, then plunges you deeper into the madness.
 
As the early morning light pierces through the nightmare, you become aware that the dark images have burned themselves into your eye. These creatures are always waiting, night after night, which brings a terrifying comfort.

Antique Revival

2016
​There is no question to the value of the monumental moments that happen during a lifetime. We cherish them, fear them, cling onto them. But there is a certain unnoticed magic that exists in the seconds before. When the universe and all its components slow to a synced drumming; your heart races and stops simultaneously and there is a stillness between breaths. What happens in those moments? Teetering between life and death, past and future, joy and fear? There is a certain electricity that comes from the earth, that connects you completely to the universe. In this space, you can peer into one’s soul and become aligned to the ancient elements of existence. It exists in a look on a lovers face, the anticipation while waiting for results, a powerful glance. But as you try to hold onto the moment, it has already vanished. A glimpse of clarity and chaos before you learn life’s final mystery.
 
These are the moments that are the most real, the most authentic. If we can embrace them, then we can move beyond language, gender, culture, love, hate, and even death. We are powerless in these instances which suspends us in time, allowing complete freedom.

Aerial Voyage

2014
In a constantly changing world, one element has remained a constant in human life: art. Every ancient culture has found a way to communicate using visual symbols to documenting their lives, beliefs, struggles, and passions.

Although we have extreme differences to our lives, there are also many similarities that most people would choose not to focus on. In the over-populated world that we live in today, we tend to focus on the things that make us different because our differences give us our individuality. Art is the expression of the individual. But why are we so afraid of each other’s differences? When we allow each person and culture to thrive in their traditions we open ourselves to creating something harmonious and uniquely beautiful.

In my work I not only try to find what I have in common with other people, but also try to celebrate the differences that I find in myself and in other cultures, past and present. By using symbols from ancient civilizations and modern tribes, I have tried to create common ground from many cultures. Doing this helps the viewer find something meaningful with the painting, and gives them courage to allow the painting to be personal. Everyone’s perception of the world is different; I am simply sharing my perception of the world with you.

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