Mike Savage

In Memory of Michael Savage (1954-1998)

Even in 6th grade, always dressed in black, Mike Savage stood out.
As an artist he fished an un-herded menagerie from his vast inner-space, let loose in a ghetto blasting liberation of sanity-clauses...
spun with comic ferocity, each handled with the twinkling ear of a punster. He then promulgated his deft paintings as pranksterisms.

His mom, photographer Naomi Savage, (Man Ray’s favorite niece), tells me DADA only happened when jazz was young and Paris sizzled.
Yet Mike enjoyed his readymade status in the Art Scene.He took the sobriquet "Son of DADA".
Living large as he sped the Porsche or gamboled on foot - Prince of Bodhichitta.
Asking everyone to ask: "WHAT THE F**K ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!... For his rolling camera...
At his wake, we observed a moment of loudness, an apt tribute to a mensch of infinite geste and volume.
It was always hard to miss Mike Savage, it still is.


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"Howard & Laura" 1989
15"x 22' Water Color/pencil on paper. Framed by Mike $2,400.

Mike worked for Howard as his foreman on a work-crew renovating buildings in downtown Manhattan.Howard is the 3 iguanas, not the penguin...Laura was Howard's love, but the image is from the "Girls of Hawaii" in Playboy...Mike's the penguin.



"Fandango" 1976
15"x 22" Ink on paper, Unframed $950.

An early drawing typical in style for that period- but more involved than most...



"Portrait of Myra"(Mike's wife)- 1994
15"x 11" Water color on paper In frame made by Mike $955.50

Mike painted this likeness just before they were seperating ...



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