Jacqueline Savaiano

I envision my oil paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and mixed media as I have embraced my writings as a world-class journalist: each piece is an adventure of striking dramatic impression. I fashion understandable images that combine realistic, representational, abstract, and Pop Art approaches.

Within this framework, I quest for something fresh in subject matter and presentation. When conceptualizing, I ask: "What might make the work memorable? Can a story be told? What might provoke conversation?"

Some responses: vivid rich colors and vibrating color contrasts (as inspired by Matisse and Van Gogh), chiaroscuro style (grazie to Da Vinci and Caravaggio), mirrored effects, humorous animal narratives (motivated by Matisse again), reverential animal narratives (divined from Chauvet and Lascaux cave art), comical concepts (thank you Pop Art), universal goddess imagery, and strong palette knife marks, energetic brush strokes, and textured effects using impasto and stucco to affect a permanent look and feel of landscape subjects, especially stone and rock.

Born and raised in Chicago and currently living in San Diego after 30 years in Los Angeles, I am also a traveling artist inspired to plein air paint the romantic Renaissance...

Art Education
*Palomar College, San Marcos, CA 2023
*University of California, San Diego, LaJolla, CA 2017-2018
*Anthenaeum School of the Arts, LaJolla, CA 2017-2018
*Art Center Sarasota, FL 2015
*Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy 2013
*Valdes Art Center, Santa Fe, NM 2011-2014
*Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, 2008

Other
*Northwestern University, Evanston,.IL Masters in Journalism, 1976
*University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Bachelors in English, 1975; Included year of study at University College, London

*Hamptons Fine Art Fair 2022, with Ross Contemporary, Southampton, NY; July 14-17, 2022
-Fallbrook Art Center, CA, 11th Annual Fallbrook Art Center Artist Guild Exhibition, June/July 2022 & June/July 2023; Juried
*Ross Contemporary at Bridgeport Art Center (Chicago), 2024; Gallery 116, St. Charles, IL: Zhou B Art Center (Chicago), 2015 - 2022; Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL, 2018-2019;
*Love & Passion UNMASKED, Online Show, Karyn Mannix Contemporary, East Hampton, NY, February 2021
*Women Contemporary Artists, Sarasota, FL, Spring 2016
*Art Center Sarasota, FL 2015
Honorable Mention: "Beautiful Man"