Bryan Savitz

Bryan Savitz’s sculptures encourage the viewer to contemplate the fine line between reality and constructed reality. For

Submissive Compressions

(2005) he built a city–complete with a satellite dish, water tower, water mill, airport tower, and skyscrapers–from discarded cardboard boxes. Flat-packed and stained with fruit and vegetable juice, the boxes simultaneously present both a lived history of urban streets and a fantastical simulation of them. What’s more, the boxes’ printed logos cover nearly every edifice of the miniaturized metropolis in much the same way that advertisements increasingly dominate cities’ skylines. In 2008 Savitz created a series of stand alone sculptures that further abstract the everyday.


Forged with fiberglass, resin, trinkets, and wood, their milky white shapes defy classification, recalling the botanical or bestial. The outlines of familiar trinkets and figurines are barely recognizable within the biomorphic forms, both physically present and a ghostly representation of themselves.

Savitz has had solo exhibitions at David Petersen Gallery in Minneapolis and Rare Gallery in New York. His work has been included in group exhibitions in New York at institutions such as SculptureCenter and Exit Art.