Jim Sajovic: Evolution

October 1, 2005 - January 22, 2006 Free Admission

MOTION PICTURES
1989 – 1991
Motion Pictures represent archetypal pairings of male and female. The juxtaposed men and women are clearly separate, yet suggest the desire for intimacy and belonging that is forever delayed, tentative, and unstable.

DANTE PAINTINGS
DARK PAINTINGS
1991 – 1996
The Dante Paintings and Dark Paintings express a mood of profound introspection and acknowledge tragic and destructive forces present in the human psyche. The series was inspired by contemporary disasters occurring on a worldwide scale.

MILLENIUM GARDEN
1996 – 1999
The monumental paintings of Millennium Garden—Eden, Paradise, and Darkness—were inspired by and poetically correspond to the three panels of Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych, the Garden of Earthly Delights (1510-15).

DREAMER / ECSTASY
2001 – 2005
Sajovic’s most recent series Dreamer/ecstasy asks—What is joy, bliss, paradise, enlightenment, and spiritual transcendence, and can they be experienced here and now?