The Work

In the studio, I observe, build, edit, layer, and invent, wrestling to compose what it looks like to feel human. My searching-through-making, push-pull approach has always been the cornerstone of my studio practice.  I toggle between two primary bodies of work: Figures & Fragments and Turbulence. The figurative sculpture pierces what is viscerally felt in an individual body in response to our frenetic and polarizing culture. More specifically, this work punctuates societal systemic structures, women’s roles within these constructs, and the inevitable injustice of power dynamics. Turbulence portrays our collective body, and the cultural anxiety felt across the globe. An uncertainty has fixed itself in our everyday life and my sculptures are snapshots of this vibrating unease. Physical systems, patterns in nature, anatomy, emotive gesture and our apparent self-destructive human nature all fuel my work. Ultimately, I choreograph the interplay between chaos and order, and create artwork with our human imperative to survive, evolve, modify and adapt at its core.


About

Stacy Latt Savage is a sculptor who works across mediums endlessly searching for meaning and structure through a studio practice signified by a love of making, an enchantment with raw material and a devotion to process and visual discovery. She received her MFA from Cornell University and her BA from Wells College. Savage is a Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth teaching sculpture and drawing. She exhibits her work in a variety of venues including museums and galleries such as the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park (MA), Site:Brooklyn (NYC), the Alternative Museum (NYC), The Fuller Museum (MA), The Art Complex Museum (MA), Grounds for Sculpture (NJ), the New Britain Museum of American Art (CT), the Cape Cod Museum (MA), the Attleboro Museum (MA), the Cotuit Center for the Arts (MA) as well as solo, juried and group exhibitions in university gallery settings such as Brandeis University, Del Mar College, Wheaton College, Stonehill College, the University of Hawaii, George Mason University, Bridgewater State University, UMass Lowell. Savage has a particular interest in fabricating sculpture for natural settings and exploring the dialogue between art and nature. Examples of her outdoor sculpture exhibition sites include the Saint-Gaudens Historic National Site (NH), the Heritage Museum (MA), Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park (IL), the Chesterwood Museum (MA), Forest Hills Cemetery (MA), Tarrant College Campus (TX), the Springfield Armory (MA), the Eustis Estate Museum (MA), the Whaling Museum (MA). 

Her passion for artwork in natural settings drew her to found The River Project: Sculpture at the Slocum’s River Reserve, a collaboration with Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust, featuring site-specific outdoor sculpture of national and regional sculptors. Savage has been an artist-in-residence at the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program (WI), The Yew Tree Farm Iron Residency (Suffolk, UK), the Franconia Sculpture Park (MN) and others. Savage maintains a commitment to collaboration and her community which have led to numerous public commissions and special projects including the Holocaust Memorial (New Bedford, MA), the 350-50 Commemorative Sculpture commissioned by the Town of Dartmouth (MA); and her Project Residency at the New Bedford Art Museum: Entropy, an evolving community-engaged sculpture/drawing installation. She is currently affiliated with the Boston Sculptors Gallery in Boston’s renowned SOWA district. Her work is also included in numerous private collections. A full CV is available upon request.