Double Vision: Works from Anna Podris and Keith Norval

Feburary 17, 2025 - March 15, 2025                                                                  
Reception: February 22 at 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Anna Podris and Keith Norval, both Savannah College of Art and Design graduates, are a husband and wife art team who are active in the local arts scene and in art education. They are members of the new City Market Artist Collective – a gallery run for and by artists. They shared a studio at Artspace for 16 years and have showed extensively throughout the triangle. 

Anna and Keith have worked to craft their own version of an “art life”.  Art life extends beyond the studio. It includes sharing creativity with the younger generation through the artists in the schools program and summer camps. Aside from making paintings, they make stickers and repeat pattern fabric. They create playful sculptures with found objects in their backyard. They draw quirky lunch notes for our kid. They plan vacations around galleries and museums which they want to see. They are always ready to be inspired by something they see in life, and to translate it into their paintings. Keith and Anna are a dynamic team!

Keith’s body of work combines abstract elements, steam of consciousness, pop art/comic book influences and anthropomorphic animals with reoccurring characters and situations. Humorous and whimsical with a satirical bent to a lot of the pieces, he works with layers of oil paint to build up a vibrancy of the surface. He aims to explore modern life with a simplified flat approach to the picture plane that explores the universal through personal symbols.

For Anna, painting is a way to depict her own parallel universe.  She sees paintings as portals. This leads her to paint paintings of paintings - which leads to painting interiors. The interiors have a surrealist or magic realist quality. She always includes some of the elements: earth, air, fire and water as a recurring theme in her paintings.