One of the pleasures of traveling is the discovery of museums like SCAD. Surprisingly stimulating, visually & intellectually, we found some of the most interesting, powerful and – why not, funny works, both within the brick walls of this magnificent 1853 structure that once housed a railway depot for the Central of Georgia Railway, as well as in the surrounding area outdoors. And to think that, before visiting Savannah, we had never even heard of SCAD!
Christopher Chiappa
LIVESTRONG Savannah, 2018
Melissa Spitz
”Do you need some Xanax? You’ll feel better”, 2013
Melissa Spitz
”I fell down and broke my jaw”, 2012
Toyin Ojih Odutola
Waiting for Supper, 2017
Charcoal, pastel and pencil on paper
Toyin Ojih Odutola
The Abstraction of a Continent, 2017-2018
Charcoal, pastel and pencil on paper
Mariana Castillo Deball, “To-Day, February 20th,”
For her exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art, Castillo Deball presented the most recent iteration of the project “To-Day,” which combines historical research about a specific site and a physical form that contains this research, which the artist calls a “fictional character.”
This ongoing project is founded in a set of parameters that the artist herself has set:
“Each time the piece takes place, the character is shaped by this one-day history. It is important to mention that the date is decided by the situation and not by the artist. The date always coincides with the official opening of the exhibition, in this case the 20th of February. The documentation and visual material departs from newspapers, travel logs, birthdates, obituaries, holidays, observances and any other traces related to this particular date. ‘To-Day’ is an archive of events, with an arbitrary point in common. The piece will be completed after 365 editions.”
SCAD Museum of Art – Savannah, GA
April 4th, 2018
The Humble Fabulist 