Phil Savage Photo Unique Perspective
November 3-25, 2023
Phil Savage Photo Unique Perspective
Opening reception: Friday, November 3, 4:00-9:00 PM
Gallery hours: Sat Nov 4, 10 AM – 5 PM; Sun Nov 5, 11 AM – 5 PM; Mon-Fri 9 AM – 5 PM and Sat, 10 AM – 1 PM. Additional hours: Tue Nov 7, 14 & 21, 7-9 PM; Thu Nov 9, 5-7 PM; Fri Nov 17, 5-7 PM. Please note, the Emporium will be closed Wed-Fri Nov 22-24.
This new exhibition features an assortment of beautiful and unique photographic perspectives of Knoxville, Nashville, and the Smoky Mountains by local photographer Phil Savage. Most images will be in panoramic format, created by combining almost a hundred single images in order to form one breathtaking and memorable work of art.
My statement is simple in concept but quite challenging in execution: I want to create beautiful and compelling images by always keeping in mind my personal goal of making the ordinary EXTRAORDINARY.
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Award-winning photographer Phil Savage produces conversation-starting artwork.
Phil Savage has a true passion for life that is clearly demonstrated in his love for photography. Phil does not adhere to any one particular photographic style, he simply loves to explore the countless possibilities that the photographic medium has to offer. He particularly embraces ‘Black & White Infrared’ images with hand-tinted touches. Some of the pictures on our website were taken with an infrared camera, and then hand tinted over portions of the photograph creating a surreal, other worldly quality from a very ordinary, and otherwise mundane moment.
Phil was born in Mexico City, lived in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Guatemala before coming to Washington D.C.. He has traveled all over the world and has visited Europe on numerous occasions. He earned a full gymnastics scholarship from Southern Illinois University where he received a BA in Fine Art Photography and French from there and from the University of Grenoble in southern France. He has been actively involved in photography for nearly 50 years.
He settled in East Tennessee when he was hired by fellow Hall-of-Famer and All-American gymnast, Ginger Temple Baxter, to help her coach gymnastics. He and his wife, Lisa opened the Knoxville Gymnastics Training Center in 1983.
Phil is a 6-time Hall of Fame coach: inducted in 2006 for the TN Men’s and Women’s Gymnastics Hall of Fame, in 2009 for the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame (Lisa was also inducted, in 2018, into the Greater Knoxville Sports HOF) , in 2011 for the Region 8 Sports Hall of Fame and Peachtree Gymnastics HOF in 2013. In 2014, Phil received the Frank Cumisky Award, the highest honor awarded to a coach in USA Gymnastics. He is the first of only two Junior National Team coach in Tennessee gymnastics history and has since served 13 years. Phil is also in the Guinness Book of World Records!
Phil met his wife Lisa and together they have been enriching the Knoxville community in the beautiful sport of gymnastics since 1980 by teaching and coaching kids of all ages. Phil has won 35 consecutive state team titles, coached 6 junior national team members and has placed 47 of his gymnasts in NCAA gymnastics programs and numerous State, Regional and National champions.
Phil has a true passion for life that is clearly reflected in the scope of his work in photography. Phil loves to explore the countless possibilities that the photographic medium has to offer. He enjoys photographing challenging topics such as sports, architecture and nature. He loves to experiment with time exposures, night time photography, abstracts and light painting. Phil is the first photographer to win the Dogwood Arts Festival contest which is usually awarded to painters. He has a unique ability to combine technology and painting effects, stretching the concrete limits of the “camera eye” into heroic images imbued with fresh meaning. Under Phil’s unique touch, a building that one passes daily, without notice, now becomes a poetic and timely object, highlighting our city’s revival. Phil’s unrelenting passion to push the envelope of photography to new and unexplored levels has resulted in some very unique and wonderful images. His motto is to turn the ordinary into something extraordinary and to challenge himself and others to constantly look around and study the endless possibilities photography has to offer.