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Tad Savinar | 2025: A Logbook Through Darkness
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PDX CONTEMPORARY ART is pleased to present 2025: A Logbook Through Darkness, a solo exhibition by Tad Savinar accompanied by hardbound book with essay by John Weber.
Tad Savinar considers himself a reporter and his work is frequently a reflection of the cultural moment. 2025: A Logbook Through Darkness responds to recent or anticipated losses and our social and political conditions.
This body of work, completed during the year 2025, serves as a documentation of the days as they unfolded. Rather than focusing on specific events, the works aim to capture the general feelings of apprehension and unease that the year held. The new digital prints use found photography and illustration which Savinar then manipulates with geometric forms and imagery. The work is layered, sometimes censoring or redacting information and other times highlighting unsettling details. The obfuscation urges careful looking and critical thinking about the cultural currents of our time. Savinar does not preach but rather engages his viewers through irony and disquiet.