TJ Savino is a New York based artist who creates metal sculptures from wire, cutlery, and found materials. He transforms rigid materials into dynamic figures which capture the essence of movement, connection, and emotional depth.

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TJ creates art to bring himself and others joy.

TJ's work draws on a lifetime of making and exploring: he grew up playing saxophone, learned the basics of swing dancing in college while earning a degree in physics, and studied welding before spending several years working professionally with metal.

After stepping away from dance for more than a decade, he rediscovered it in 2022 and has since immersed himself in the swing dance community, performing, competing, DJing, organizing events, and occasionally teaching.

 

These experiences all inform the way he thinks about movement, rhythm, structure, materials, and the human form.

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TJ has also been making origami for as long as he can remember, from paper airplanes and animals to increasingly complex models. Years of folding paper have taught him to see complex forms as combinations of simple shapes, an approach that carries directly into his sculpture. He has developed his drawing and painting skills through experimentation, books, and online learning, with a particular focus on gesture drawing and live figure drawing.

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TJ draws from all of these experiences when creating, using rigid materials to capture the movement, character, and spontaneity of the human form. His sculptures seek to distill moments of motion and expression into simple, dynamic forms.

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TJ's work has been permanently installed at Petrossian Caviar Boutique in Manhattan and the Inn at Little Washington, and has been exhibited at ArtExpo New York and venues throughout the Northeast.