INSECTICIDE AN ART EXHIBITION May 15 thru June 22, 2010

ARTIST STATEMENT

It is all about harmony in our life, when there is a constant grasshoppers’ or crickets’ chirping and buzzing in the grass. When there is a harmony, there is always a place for a miracle. It’s about serenity of life filled with grasshopper’s and cricket’s buzzing in the grass. It’s from my childhood. Still, when I hear that noise, I am happy. Aren’t all of us?

BIO

Savva began his artistic experience in Moscow after being selected as a child for specialized training in Academic Drawing and Painting at Moscow Art School dedicated to famous Russian artist Vasily Surikov. From there he was directly admitted to the renowned Stroganov Institute of Art in Moscow to expand his knowledge of the Creative Arts to include Visual Communications. There he acquired proficiency in such disciplines as Graphic Design, Illustration and Production Processes in addition to continuing his Fine Art studies.  Upon completing his education, Savva worked in Moscow as an Illustrator, Graphic Designer and Art Director for display at several Moscow galleries, most notably a single Artist show at the prestigious gallery Krymskaia Shore Boardwalk.

He was then invited by the Klasky Csupo animation studio to come work in The United States as a Development Designer on various television and feature film projects. His designs led to the creation of several highly successful Nickelodeon animated productions, such as the popular series The Wild Thornbury’s, Rocket Power and As Told By Ginger. Savvas’s work in creating backgrounds for the top-rated Rugrats series and first feature film led to his appointment as Art Director on the second Rugrats film, Rugrats in Paris, which generated over one hundred fifty million dollars worldwide. In 2004 Savva was invited to Disney Studios as a digital background painter for Heffulamp and then in 2005 for Little Mermaid II. Savva resumed his artistic career in the United States with Apexart gallery of New York in 2007. Since then he has participated in a large number of exhibitions, which is something he intends to continue.

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SAVVA’S past shows at the Loft at Liz’s

3 Tsubas – acrylic on canvas, 66″ x 40″