October 4 - November 18, Palace Avenue is pleased to present upcoming artist Savannah Jane opening BUTNKD at Iconik Coffee Roasters Lupe. Opening reception Friday, October 13 from 4 - 6 PM at 314 S Guadalupe St. Santa Fe, NM 87501.
BUTNKD presents a body of sustainably sourced NM wood and clay. The artist, Savannah
Jane, then manipulates these natural resources physically and conceptually with multi media to
enhance the bare root of humanity with functional sculpture and unorthodox prints.
Palace Avenue is delighted to announce an upcoming art exhibition featuring the works of Savannah Jane. Titled "BUTNKD," the exhibition will be held at Iconik Coffee Roasters Lupe, located at 314 S Guadalupe St. Santa Fe, NM 87501, from October 4 to November 18, 2023.
Savannah Jane is an emerging artist who has gained attention for her unique style and creative approach to contemporary art. In BUTNKD, she presents a series of works that explore the intersection of identity and self-expression, using bold colors, intricate patterns, and mixed media to create thought-provoking pieces.
To celebrate the opening of the exhibition, there will be an opening reception on Friday, October 13 from 4 PM to 6 PM. This is a great opportunity to meet the artist and engage with her work, while enjoying refreshments in the welcoming atmosphere of Iconik Coffee Roasters Lupe.
Palace Avenue is thrilled to present Savannah Jane's work to the Santa Fe community and beyond, and we invite all art lovers to come and experience BUTNKD for themselves.
BIO
Artist Savannah Jane currently lives and creates in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Primarily a xylographer, she starts by carving her topsy-turvy line work into sustainably sourced wood. Creating a wonderland of abstraction, she combines multi-media installation, sculpture and protean canvas prints to translate the bruit vibrations into a visual experience. Using form, bold linear expression, and movement to awaken the senses into an organic rhythm. Inspired by music visualization and ecstatic dance, SJ intertwines her pianist knowledge to map out large scale compositions that seduce you into a secret garden. Earning her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts at Murray State University, she continues to stay curious about the unorthodox techniques of printmaking and the gravity of zero waste. Santa Fe Reporter states she brings an earthy moodiness to the table. Currently her own table is wrapped in one of her off cut prints, where she is somehow creating her large scale works in her tiny new home and studio - the Fleetwood RV - named Stevie.
STATEMENT
Seduction is not about the culmination or gratification of desire; it is about the thrill of the desire itself. I am the thrilled to be the architect of my own wonderland, creating BUTNKD. I compose my wood, clay, and paint with dancing in each mark to enhance the experience of movement, space, and perception through the abstract structure. Interlocked with the expressive marks, I pull from music theory to create controlled nonsense, developing an overwhelming geometric pattern that translates sound through movement of time. Where there is order there is language— if you explore, you get rewarded with new findings, just as you are reading a map to depict a code, or reading a clock, counterclockwise.
Visualizing this experience of sound and abstract movement through deep meditation within the composition, is shown through altering shapes to create abstracted human form within industrial structures to put the viewer in a metaphysical sense of place and rhythm to hear. I am developing a map that seduces your body and mind into a garden of euphoria—the essence of Mushin through bruit, or lack thereof. Communicating movement of vibrations through the act of repetition of design rules, type as form, and musical notation to represent the chaos in our organic environment versus industry. I manipulate the gestural lines to disconnect us with the familiar, taking us into a visual vocabulary of architecture. Using a process of layering reductively and additively is how I deconstruct the perception of my large scale composition with multi media—rain water, wood cut, clay, recycled materials, natural resources, paint, charcoal, bookbinding, and sculptural installation.