CORE CONNECTIONS
with ANDREA WOHL KEEFE and ORLANDO SAVERINO-LOEB at The National
Cover Image, top to bottom: Orlando Saverino-Loeb
The Sentinal and his flag bearer, 2023
Watercolor and graphite on aquarell paper 6.5 x 15"
Andrea Wohl Keefe Knot Painting 2, 2022 Watercolor
Opposite page: Andrea Wohl Keefe Knot Painting 1, 2022
Core Connections features the thought-provoking works of Andrea Keefe and Orlando Saverino-Loeb. Keefe delves into the intricate relationship between our sensory observations and the narratives we construct to define our identities and beliefs. Her knotted forms symbolize the complex interplay between our thoughts and past experiences, exploring how our subjective histories shape our perspectives. Saverino-Loeb’s works celebrate community, individuality, and the emotional energies that drive us forward. His compositions reflect the collective experiences and reactions that mold our identities, creating deconstructed figures that transcend distinctions of race, gender, and social standing. Together, Keefe and Saverino-Loeb’s works invite viewers to reflect on the profound interconnectedness of human experiences and the rich diversity that arises from our unique yet shared journeys.
Andrea Wohl Keefe was born and raised in Bridgewater, NJ. She received a BFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, and an MFA from Miami University in Oxford, OH. She currently lives in Philadelphia, PA, where she teaches art at Central High School and works in her studio as much as possible.
Andrea Wohl Keefe
“My work is motivated by my interest in psychology. In particular, I am interested in how we bring together the information our sensory observations provide into narratives that we use to define who we are and what we come to believe about the world we live in. The knotted forms in my art represent the ways our thinking becomes connected to our past experiences - the way we develop our perspective and subjective history. As for the corporeal elements seen in my work, they can be animated or paralyzed by our thoughts, and adversely they can be manipulated by our actions. It is about taking control and giving up control. Generally, what interests me is how this entirely subjective experience is what we share with others, and it is also what makes us uniquely different from one another. When another person truly “gets you”, it’s like they’ve crossed this great chasm and reinforced what it means to be human.”
Andrea Wohl Keefe
Undone 7, 2023
Andrea Wohl Keefe Knot Painting 4, 2022
Opposite page, left to right: Andrea Wohl Keefe Knot Painting 9: To Make Everything Known, 2023
ink and acrylic paint on paper
Andrea Wohl Keefe
Knot Painting 12, 2023 Watercolor and gouache paints over monoprint
Opposite page:
4, 2023
Watercolor and gouache paints over monoprint on paper 17.5 x 20"
5, 2023
Watercolor and acrylic paints over monoprint on paper 14 x 11”
$700
Andrea Wohl Keefe
Undone
$850 Andrea Wohl Keefe
Undone
Children of the Same Sun #1, 2020
Watercolor and ink on Strathmore paper from 1973
16 x 14"
$1,275
Orlando Saverino-Loeb
Children of the Same Sun #2, 2020
Watercolor and ink on Strathmore paper from 1973 16 x 14”
$1,275
Orlando Saverino-Loeb is a Philadelphia born artist. His work is influenced by surrealist imagery, the compositions in 19th century Romanticism paintings, and extended stays in Italy. He deconstructs the environments he’s experienced, and rebuilds them as reflections on humans and their activities. He uses characters, symbols, and visual metaphors to create a sense of familiarity that facilitates the creation of unique new ideas and insights in the mind of his viewer. His work has been shown at the Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery, the InLiquid Gallery, Fleisher Art Memorial and the DaVinci Art Alliance among others. He He is currently the Technical Director at HOT•BED, an art gallery in Philadelphia. In 2018 he was selected to participate in the BecomeBecome residency in Sardinia, Italy, during which he presented in their first symposium talk at the Stazione Dell’Arte - Museo d’arte contemporanea in Ulassai. He has continued to show work as a member of DaVinci Art Alliance, and during 2020 he had six paintings in an international show in Paris with the DF Art Project, as well as showing work with Air Mattress Gallery, NYC virtually.
Orlando Saverino-Loeb
Children of the Same Sun #10, 2020
Watercolor and ink on Strathmore paper from 1973 16 x 14"
$1,275
Children of the Same Sun #12, 2020
Watercolor and ink on Strathmore paper from 1973 16 x 14”
$1,275
“Children of the Same Sun” is a series developed as a celebration of togetherness, comfort, and community. They are compositions built upon the individuality and humanness existing in the energetic burst of emotions we all carry within ourselves that spur us forward. Each of us is a culmination of our experiences and how we have reacted to them. We all travel through the world this way and those experiences we have do change us and form us into the beings that we are. Here I have been exploring the idea of individuality through the exploration of form. I work to find the emotive qualities in the forms that turn them into characters. These figures are the culmination of a collection of marks, the way we are a culmination of a collection of experiences. They are deconstructed figures that are relatable, without a distinction of race, gender, or social standing. Lately, in the wake of all that has been happening painting these figures has been a meditation on community, what it means to be an individual, what it means to be a partner, and that it is our individuality that creates such a unique and diverse world.
Orlando Saverino-Loeb
Orlando Saverino-Loeb
Orlando Saverino-Loeb
Children of the Same Sun #15, 2020
Watercolor and ink on Strathmore paper from 1973 16 x 14"
$1,275
Orlando Saverino-Loeb
Children of the Same Sun #9, 2020
Watercolor and ink on Strathmore paper from 1973 16 x 14” $1,275
Orlando Saverino-Loeb
Children of the Same Sun #11, 2020
Watercolor and ink on Strathmore paper from 1973 16 x 14” $1,275
Orlando Saverino-Loeb
Tile Study #1, 2023
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 15.25 x 13" NFS
Orlando Saverino-Loeb
Tile Study #3, 2023
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 15 x 13” NFS
Orlando Saverino-Loeb
Tile Study #2, 2023
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 11.5 x 11” NFS
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Orlando Saverino-Loeb
Tile Study #4, 2023
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 13 x 27” NFS
