Mark Savoia
C W O S ARTIST
Tags : Photography
Laughing Camera
50 Hudson Drive
CWOS Building 7, Floor 2, Unit 7
New Fairfield, CT 06812
Phone: 203-746-0001
Email: mark (at) laughingcamera (dot) com
Website: http://www.laughingcamera.com
Artist Statement
I have been working on a portfolio of photographs of found curiosities during my travels throughout New England for the past six years. The goal of this new body of work is to evoke not only humor, but the irony visible in encounters with everyday situations. I have a tongue-in-cheek view of Americana and I am constantly looking for evidence that below the surface something is not quite right in this country.
It is what visually perplexes me that draws my eye, and then becomes a compelling photograph. Through the camera's selective view, I juxtapose what is considered progress in our throwaway society against an increasing lack of taste. I am not attempting two-dimensional slapstick, rather satire laced with a few Freudian slips. I am here to document evidence and if the viewer finds something as humorous as I do, then I have succeeded.
Selected Works
|  All American Meal - 2011 - Photograph - 13x9  Hedging religion - 2010 - Photograph - 13x9  Crappy Seats - 2010 - Photograph - 13x9  CDX #1 - 2010 - Photograph - 12x12  CDX #2 - 2010 - Photograph - 12x12  1,2,3,4 - 2011 - Photograph - 13x9  Swingless - 2011 - Photograph - 13x9 |
Artist Bio
Grants:
Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism
Arts Grant, Photography 2010
Solo Exhibits:
Upper Stairway Gallery, New England School of Photography
Boston, MA July 2010
Group Exhibits:
Manipulated
Catell Photo Gallery, Asheville, NC 2011
Num6ers
A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX 2011
New England Photography Biennial
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA Sept - Nov 2011
Bystander
WWA (Working With Artists), Lakewood, CO April-June 2011
Images 2011
Fairfield Museum, Fairfield, CT May-Aug 2011
Grey Area - Artist Fellowship Recipients
CCT Gallery, Hartford, CT Nov 2010-Jan 2011
CWOS ArtSpace
New Haven, CT 2010
What if? 60x60x60
New Media New Music New England, On-line video exhibit 2010
30th Annual Photo Show
New Canaan Society for the Arts, New Canaan, CT 2010
Camera Works
Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT 2009
Spectra '07
Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT 2007
Snapshot
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, 2002
Small Works
Thirteen Gallery, Danbury, CT, 2000
Off the Wall
New Haven, CT, 1997
Off the Wall
New Haven, CT, 1996
The Nude: Return to the Source
Westbeth Gallery, NYC, 1992
Richter Park Annual Juried Exhibition
Danbury, CT, 1990
Richter Park Annual Juried Exhibition
Danbury, CT, 1989
Richter Park Annual Juried Exhibition
Danbury, CT, 1988
Publications:
Black and White Photography, UK
November 2006
Awards:
Black and White Photography, UK
Photographer of the Year, Portfolio, runner-up, 2006
Black and White Photography, UK
Photographer of the Year, Printer, runner-up, 2006
International Photo Awards
Photojournalist of the Year, non-professional, 2003