New works by Tobia Makover to be displayed at “Southern Discomfort: Art Inspired by Flannery O’Connor.”
Baby Crib, Timeout, Mother’s Bed, and Timeout, Encaustic Photographs, 2011.
Local artists come together to create an exhibition of works inspired by the author and Savannah native Flannery O’Connor. Tobia Makover creates four new works based on O’Connor’s short stories photographed in her childhood home . To view details about the show as well as article featuring other participating artists by Allison Hersch, please visit the link above.
Info:
“Southern Discomfort: Art Inspired by Flannery O’Connor” exhibit and silent auction from 6 to 9 p.m. Feb. 3rd. Located at 1704Lincoln, 1704 Lincoln St. Savannah, GA 31401. For More info please call 912-398-1676 or visit www.1704lincoln.com
“Suspended unknown between the two points of birth and death is a scope of possibility, a life, with which we can do anything. This is the mid point. This is the place where an artist creates, a mother nurtures, a daughter lets go. With a new series of encaustic photographs, Tobia Makover confronts the balance in between paradoxes.”
To read the full eloquent review by Elizabeth Rushing as well as her other perspectives on art in Savannah, GA please visit the link above.
tobia MAKOVER
arrival: 1996
say: toh-bee-yah MACK-OH-VER
acting as: photographer, mixed media artist, archival printing services COO
savannah highlight/s: Laney Contemporary features “Midway” opening atOglethorpe Gallery November 17, 2011, 6 - 9 p.m.
career highlight/s: London National Portrait Gallery, Les Ateliers de L’image in St. Remy, France, PH-Neutro in Verona, Italy
themes: physicality of existence, birth, death, place in history
bio: Makover runs two businesses out of her self-designed and built studio in Kensington. A distinguished and active member of Kobo Gallery, she exhibits nationally and internationally while living in Savannah with her husband and two young boys. Working primarily as a photographer and mixed-media artist, Tobia styles with panache every project, place or event she meets.
statement: “In all bodies of work and in life, Tobia contemplates the physicality of our existence. She questions the importance of our being and the impact of our time here while she examines the tension between holding on and the desire to let go.”
site/s: www.tobiamakover.com, www.untitledprinting.com
Tobia builds suggestions and stories with photographs. Her vision, command of composition and studied manipulation of formal aspects renders her work as much painting as photograph. While a technical master of the camera, it is in the carefully planned, executed, and designed tableaux - that happen to be distinctly beautiful - that this Savannah artist performs unique, haunt-ing/ed and meaningful songs.
savannah artist: tobia makover
series: midway
title: shroud
size: 36″ x 36″
media: encaustic photography
date: 2011
To view more thoughts and reviews by Katherine Sandoz as well as see her own personal work, please visit the link above.
Art and fashion go hand in hand. Both are expressions of creativity and individuality. At Tobia Makover’s latest exhibition, entitled Midway, I met some intriguing people and pulled out my S95 to snap a few shots. There was art on the walls and “art” in people’s personal presentation–a gentleman toting a black wallet and an artist in a draping brown dress. “Works of art” for everyone.
To see Banzimas full coverage of the Midway reception please visit the link above.
Connect Savannah writer Jim Morekis interviews Tobia Makover about her participation at the Telfair Art Fair. Please visit the full article by the link above.
BW Gallerist recognizes Tobia Makover as one of the strong newcomers to Altanta Celebrates photography. To see others featured and to view the full article please visit the link above.
Savannah, GA- the “Hostess City of the South”
Savannah is known for its architecture, and with over 1600 restored structures rated as historically and architecturally significant, is the nation’s largest, historically restored urban area. This romantic city is home to a handful of notable art schools and a thriving design community.
Beautiful, haunting images from internationally award winning photographer, Tobia Makover:
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Ethereal Expressions by Allison Hersch is a featured article in the Savannah Morning News about Tobia’s current exhibition at Oglethorpe Gallery. Please see the link above for the full length article
