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Sajovic Jim
Jim Sajovic was born February 21,1943, in Chicago, Illinois, and studied painting at the University of Illinois and the University of Florida.
His work from the 1990s resonates with conflict and angst, informed by historical and literary references and appropriated imagery. The paintings are usually constructed of multiple layers, rendered through complex technical means, including brush, stippling, spray, sponge, squeegeed glazes, and both applied and inscribed line. Surface qualities range from transparent veils of colored glazes to impasto passages in luminous hues.
Since 2000, Sajovic's imagery has turned inward, focusing on transcendental, ecstatic and rapturous states of being. Highly reductive figurative forms, which can be taken to suggest microscopic objects, are in motion, floating in a “color atmosphere” within which form appears to emerge or dissolve in the mind of the viewer.
Sajovic's works have been exhibited at galleries and museums in: New York, Chicago and Los Angeles; Edinburgh, Scotland; Milan, Rome, and Venice, Italy. His works are held in many public and private collections in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Exhibitions include:
Jim Sajovic: Evolution, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, 2005;
Dreamer-Ecstasy, Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, Missouri, 2005;
The Perception of Appearance, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2002;
Jim Sajovic, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 2000 & 1997;
Millennium Garden, The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri, 1998;
Inferno, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1996;
Dark Paintings, 1995, and The Dante Paintings, 1993, at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri;
New American Talent: The Tenth Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, 1994; and Motion Pictures: The Art of Jim Sajovic, The Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas, 1990. Published commentary on his work has appeared in Notes for a Young Painter (Prentice-Hall, Inc.), New American Paintings (Open Studios Press), and in numerous periodicals including Flash Art and Art in America.
He is a recipient of a Mid-America Arts Alliance/NEA Fellowship Award in Painting. He currently teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute.
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