MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY.-The Montclair Art Museum presents Naomi Savage: Word Play, on view through September 11, 2005. Savage, a photographer, has actively extended the boundaries of photographic technique and subject during her long, exploratory career. For the past eight years, she has been working on a series of computer-scanned images of beads strung together to create humorous aphorisms.

The arrangements, comprised of alphabet and handmade beads juxtaposed against colorful scarves and other types of backgrounds, are then scanned into her computer. Savage has enthusiastically embraced the flexibility and speed of the new computer-based technology, observing that she hardly goes into the darkroom anymore. This new medium suits Savage’s experimental creative process: “It’s endless what you can do. I am having a lot of fun with this. I am never bored. I wake up in the morning and wonder which of ten things I will do. There’s just so much—you have to have five lives,” says Savage.

Naomi Savage: Word Play is supported in part by funds from Exhibition Angels including Judy and Josh Weston, Suzanne and Jeffrey Citron, Bobbi Brown and Stven D. Plofker, and an anonymous donor.