The Red Arrow Gallery
Address: 919 Gallatin Avenue #4, Nashville, TN 37206
Dates: March 4 - 25, 2023
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11 - 4pm and by appointment
Website: theredarrowgallery.com
The Red Arrow Gallery is honored to present, Beyond the Dreampond, a solo exhibition with realist painter, Buket Savci. Opening March 4th, 2023, the exhibition continues through Saturday March 25th, 2023.
Buket Savci is an Artist and Turkish immigrant, currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her paintings bubble over with bold, bright colors and images of groups of people assembled together, almost in a pile on one another and surrounded by various inflatable toys you would typically find poolside. Buket’s works address longing and the need for comfort and emotional support. She says the dreampond is the celebration of being together and unconditional love. Being able to hope and dream about a better future.
image: Buket Savci, The Search Party, 2022, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches
“At the same time another layer of the work is the possibility of the figures being the last generation that could enjoy themselves recklessly in abundance right in the shadow of the climate collapse. This environmental threat might soon be the force behind their displacement and relocation as well. Pink is the color of dreams; yet exploration with the magic of color reflects my search for the dreampond. I use the colors that give me joy, which I long to share. But also, these are the colors that reflect my longing for the Mediterranean sun, which I left behind. As an immigrant from Turkey, having to create community and a sense of belonging in a new place has inspired me to convey radical love through paintings with the explosion of color, light, and sense of touch. Each touch conveys an emotion or reach for belonging and play. Toys are metaphors for being childlike, carefree and nonjudgmental, all loving and innocent at the same time.” – B. Savci, 2023
Buket Savci is a Brooklyn-based, Istanbul born artist working in painting and works on paper. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute (2010) and MFA from New York Academy of Art (2012). Savci has shown her work in numerous group exhibitions and art fairs both nationally and internationally and has presented solo exhibitions at Spring/Break Art Show (NY), Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati), Olcay Art (Istanbul), joint two person shows at Kunstverein Ludwigsburg (Germany) and Wrong Side of the River Project Space (Brooklyn). Residencies include: LMCC Arts Center Residency Program, ChaNorth (Chashama), Vermont Studio Center, and Pilotenkueche (Leipzig, Germany). She is a recipient of a Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Painting Fellowship among many other awards. Her work has been published in The Figure book by Rizzoli, Istanbul Codex: Contemporary Artists from Turkey by Imago Mundi Foundation, Hyperallergic, Artnet, American Art Collector, Create Magazine, ArtSpeak.nyc and Whitehot Magazine. She is featured in FlowState/ North Brooklyn Artists TV documentary streaming on All Arts TV and PBS.org.
