Press — Susan Savage

Press

“To stop, and consider her still lifes, her technique, and the conceptual care of her work, is to confront this question: What is our message?”
Comment Magazine

“For painter Susan Savage, she needs look no further than the glistening contours of metallic bowls for artistic expression. With a super realist’s purposeful fussiness, Savage translates to her paintings an intriguing dichotomy in her art: the ethereal optics of rainbow-colored reflections blend with the sheer physicality of her subject. We’re left wondering where the reality begins and ends, a perennial artistic meditation in and of itself.”
Joseph Woodard, Santa Barbara News Press Scene Magazine, March 2005

“...an ability to uncover and communicate moments of transcendence in domestic objects...”
Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art

“The reflective surface of the bowls allows Savage to demonstrate the virtuosity with which she handles the complex perspectives that emanate from a convex mirror. But the bowls also serve as a way to draw the work outside into the picture; these are deeply poetic and philosophical images that reward sustained attention.”
Charles Donelon, The Independent, September 2013

Selected Publications

Cover Image: It Will Not Pass Away
Comment Magazine, Fall 2025; Cardus Institute Publication ISSN 1496-8916

“Easter in the Everyday, A Lent to Easter Devotional”
Christianity Today, 2024; citation p.42 ISBN 978-1-61407-256-0

Epitaphs, What Dreams May Come
Seeds Fine Art Publications, 2023; citation p.88 ISBN 978-1-735-4422-0-4

“2016 Kalos Visual Art Prize Second Place: Susan Savage”
Ruminate Magazine, Issue 39 Summer 2016

“Given to the Light offers Solace and Sanctuary”
Casa Magazine, Santa Barbara, October 30, 2015

“Hospice of Santa Barbara Art Exhibit Seeks To Provide Sanctuary in Loss Nov. 4”
Santa Barbara Independent, October 2015

“Common Objects: Susan Savage Painter”
Comment Magazine, September 2008

“The Art of Teaching”
Scene Magazine, January 2008

“Westmont Professor at LACMA”
Santa Barbara Independent, October 2006

“The Fine Art of Education”
Scene Magazine, March 2005

“The Savage Art of Taking Risks”
Costal Woman Magazine, 2004

“Susan Savage Bearing Witness”
Westmont College Reynolds Gallery Catalog, 2004