SELECTED WORKS BY David Salle
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David Salle
Mingus in Mexico
1990
Acrylic and oil on canvas
244 x 312 cm |
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David Salle has taken the device of pastiche, which is central to modern art, and made it both the form and content of his work. |
David Salle
Dean Martin in
1990-91
Oil and acrylic on canvas
216 x 266 cm |
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Using cinematic techniques of quick edits and the surprises of super-imposition, Salle’s images float in a world of simultaneity and equilibrium. |
David Salle
Bigger Rack
1997-8
oil and acrylic on canvas
244 x 320 cm |
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David Salle is the great pictorial conversationalist exploring the intangible relationships between subjects and their depictions. |
David Salle
Angels in the Rain
1998
Oil and acrylic on canvas
244 x 335 cm |
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Angels in the Rain contains images of angel statuary, performing bears and acrobats as well as examples of the portraits, interiors and still lifes that continue to distinguish David Salle’s work. His works suggests a dramatic monologue or stand-up comedy routine. |
David Salle
Mr. Lucky
1998
Oil and acrylic on canvas
244 x 335 cm |
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David Salle reflects the ongoing modern preoccupation with the problem of reconciling one's individuality with the constant input of images and ideas from the outside, media-dominated world. |
David Salle
Picture Builder
1993
Oil and acrylic on canvas
213 x 290 cm |
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Salle’s images are all images which you can see through. They have a transparency, or they have openings, they have a space you can pass through. |
David Salle
Old Bottles
1995
Oil and acrylic on canvas
245 x 325 cm |
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David Salle's images come from a variety of sources including magazines, stock photographs, and pornography. Salle puts these images together in a painting the way another artist might create a collage using scraps of paper. |
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ARTIST INFORMATION
David Salle's BIOGRAPHY
1952
Born in Norman, Oklahoma,
1973
Education: California Institute of the Arts,
Valencia, California, B.F.A.
1975
California Institute of the Arts,
Valencia, California, M.F.A.
Lives in Sagaponack, New York.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1981
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY
1982
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Leo Castelli Gallery, NYC, NY.
1983
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1984
Leo Castelli Gallery, NYC, NY.
1985
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1986
Leo Castelli Gallery, NYC, NY.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts.
1987
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan.
1988
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas.
Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain.
1989
Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen Munchen, Munich, West Germany.
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Waddington Gallery, London, England.
1990
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
1992
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France.
1993
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California.
1994
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1995
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland.
1997
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain.
1999
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain.
2000
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
2001
Gagosian Gallery, NYC, NY.
Jablonka Galerie, Koln, Germany.
2003
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Waddington Galleries, London, England.
Emilio Mazzoli Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.
2004
David Salle: Split Worlds. The Montage Principle, Stella Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2005
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
COLLABORATIONS
1997
Fergal Stapleton and Rebecca Warren, The Showroom, London
1996
Rebecca Warren and Fergal Stapleton, Cleveland, London
1995
Rebecca Warren, Fergal Stapleton and Graham Gussin,
Laure Genillard, London
1994
Retrospective: Your Mother, with Fergal Stapleton,
152c Brick Lane, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1981
Westkunst: Heute, Museum der Stadt Koln, Koln, West Germany.
1982
Documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany.
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
Zeitgeist, Berlin, West Germany.
1983
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
New York Now, Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, West Germany.
Tendencias en Nueva York, Crystal Palace, Madrid, Spain.
Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
New Art, The Tate Gallery, London, England.
1984
An International Survey of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY.
The Human Condition: SFMMA Biennial III, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.
1985
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
XIII Biennale de Paris, Grand Halle du Parc de la Villette, Paris, France.
Carnegie International, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1986
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Ooghoogte, 50 jaar later, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Europe/America, Ludwig Museum, Koln, West Germany.
Prospect 86, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, West Germany.
1987
Avant Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
L'epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion, Centre Georges, Pompidou, Paris, France.
1989
Bilderstreit, Rheinhalle, Koln, West Germany.
1991
Mito y Magia en America: Los Ochenta, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
1993
Four American Artists, Ho-Am Museum, Kyunggi-Do, South Korea.
Operto, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
1996
Thinking Print: From Books to Billboards, 1980-1995, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY.
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C..
1998
Young Americans 2, Saatchi Gallery, London, England.
1999
The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900-2000 Part 2, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
2000
Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York.
2001
Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
2004
Flowers, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now/Part II, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York.
The Charged Image, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut.
What's Modern?, Gagosian Gallery, NYC, NY.
2005
Contemporary Voices: Works from The UBS Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Russell, John, David Salle, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 19 March 1982, p. C24.
Marzorati, Gerald, The Artful Dodger, ART NEWS, Summer 1984, pp. 47-55.
Schjeldahl, Peter, The Real Salle, ART IN AMERICA, September 1984, pp. 180-187.
Pincus-Witten, Robert, An Interview with David Salle, ARTS MAGAZINE, November 1985, pp. 78-81. (illus: "The Farewell Painting", Cover, C).
Politi, Giancarlo, David Salle, FLASH ART, August 1986, pp. 12-17.
Taylor, Paul, How David Salle Mixes High Art and Trash, THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, 11 January 1987, pp. 26-28, 39.
Liebmann, Lisa, Harlequinade for an Empty Room: On David Salle,
ARTFORUM, February 1987, pp. 94-99.
Mc Guigan, Cathleen, Dipping into the Grab Bag of Pop Culture, NEWSWEEK, 2 March 1987, p. 77.
Danto, Arthur, Art: David Salle, THE NATION, 7 March 1987, pp. 302-304.
Heartney, Eleanor, David Salle: Impersonal Effects, ART IN AMERICA, June 1988, pp. 120-129, 175. (illus: "Byron's Reference to Wellington", Cover, C).
Millet, Catherine, David Salle, entre composition et designation, ART PRESS, October 1988, pp. 12-17. (illus: "The Kelly Bag", Cover, C).
Olivares, Rosa, David Salle - Born in the U.S.A., LAPIZ, October 1988, pp. 76-81. (illus: "We'll Shake the Bag", Cover, C).
Vaudey, Marc, De l'ironie d'une rhetorique neuter, inquietante et Familiere: David Salle, ARTSTUDIO, December 1988, pp. 26-41. (illus: "Colony", Cover, C).
Adams, Brooks, Art and Sole, INTERVIEW, September 1989, pp. 88-93.
Tuten, Frederic, The House of Salle, VANITY FAIR, October 1989, pp. 210-215, 276.
Hawkes, John, Complicities, BORDER CROSSINGS, Fall 1990, pp. 28-40. (illus: "The Mystical Master", Cover, C).
Smith, Roberta, David Salle Enters a Rococo Phase, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 5 April 1991, p. C26.
Kazanjian, Dodie, Salle Days, VOGUE, May 1992, pp. 246-253, 303.
Adams, Brooks, At a Certain Point, You Bring the Gods Down on Your Head, ART NEWS, January 1994, pp. 150-153.
Smith, Roberta, Two Shows by David Salle, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28 January 1994, p. C19.
Tuten, Frederic, David Salle's 'Search and Destroy' Mission, INTERVIEW, March 1995, pp. 104-109.
Schjeldahl, Peter, Salle Days, ARTFORUM, Summer 1995.
Tuten, Frederic, David Salle: At the Edges, ART IN AMERICA, September 1997, pp. 78-83.
Carrera, J.A. Gonzalez, El Guggenheim exhibe la pintura figurativa cifrada de David Salle, EL CORREO, 18 January 2000, p. 47.
Wallach, Amei, Reassessing an Era When Excess was the Norm, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 29 April 2001.
Edelson, Sharon, Salle's New Scenes, WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY, 3 January 2003, p. 4.
Solomon, Deborah, An Art Star's Comeback? Those Aren't His Words, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 5 January 2002, pp. AR1, AR39.
Rosenblum, Robert, David Salle talks to Robert Rosenblum, ARTFORUM, March 2003, pp. 74-75, 264-265.
Nesbit, Molly, Bright Light, Big City, ARTFORUM, April 2003, pp. 184-189, 245-248.
Gilmore, Jonathan, David Salle, TEMA CELESTE, July 2003, pp. 74-75.
Yablonsky, Linda, What Makes a Painting a Painting?, ART NEWS, April 2005, pp. 96-101.
Boodro, Michael, Contemporary Vision, ELLE DECOR, May 2005, pp. 124-133.
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