Skip to main content

Amjad Faur: Clark Art Talks

5 March, 2013

March 5th, 7 pm
PUB, Clark College,
1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver WA

....Amjad Faur received his M.F.A from the University of Oregon in 2005. He has
been working for over a decade with large format (8x10 inch) photography and it
continues to be the means by which he conceptualizes, associates and produces his
work. Amjad has spent a great deal of time in Italy as well as the Middle East. The
collective histories of these particular regions have come to inform and inhabit his
work. Amjad currently lives in Olympia, WA with his wife, Laila as well as their little cat
and giant dog. He teaches at Evergreen State ....College.http://www.clark.edu/news_events/archer/art_talks.php


Tad Savinar: review of "Nice to Meet You" at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

19 February, 2013

Nice to Meet You at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (ACAC) pairs the work of West Coast artists Tony Labat and Tad Savinar. The artists had never met prior to Artistic Director Stuart Horodner’s introduction, nor did they know of each other’s work. Nice to Meet You implies a literal introduction that brought forth a comparison and collaboration. Though Labat and Savinar have disparate practices, this exhibition creates a new context for their work that heightens the political impact of each...









Tad Savinar: At Atlanta Contemporary "Nice To Meet You"

11 January, 2013

Tony Labat & Tad Savinar: Nice to Meet You

This exhibition combines the works of Tony Labat and Tad Savinar, two influential West Coast conceptualists who explore the personal and the socio-political in drawing, sculpture, video, printmaking, and performance. The title, Nice to Meet You, acknowledges the fact that until this pairing was planned, the artists had never met, and it affirms that both men are interested in reaching audiences in accessible and often humorous ways. It is the combination of a seemingly straightforward approach combined with analyzed anger and astute irony that gives their work its power..........http://www.thecontemporary.org/exhibitions/tony-labat-tad-savinar-nice-… ON IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION