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David Salle (born September 28, 1952; last name pronounced "Sally") is an American Postmodern painter, printmaker, photographer, and stage designer. Salle was born in Norman, Oklahoma, and lives and works in East Hampton, New York. He earned a BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, where he studied with ...
Guggenheim Fellowship (1986) David Salle (born September 28, 1952; last name pronounced "Sally") is an American Postmodern painter, printmaker, photographer, and stage designer. Salle was born in Norman, Oklahoma, and lives and works in East Hampton, New York. He earned a BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia ...
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1986)
David Salle (American, b.1952) is a painter, printmaker, and photographer best known for his Figurative works, created from a variety of overlapping images collected from magazines, pornography, comic books, and advertisements. Born in Norman, OK, Salle grew up in Wichita, KS, where he took art classes throughout high school at the Wichita Art ...
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He sought out images that, as he put it in a 1981 interview, “understand us.” Distinct from others of his generation, the mainspring of Salle’s imagery has always been his own photography, the carefully staged and lit scenes that appear in his paintings like telexes from the unconscious.
Apr 26, 2018 · April 26, 2018. PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHAEL AVEDON. Artist David Salle, 65, is known for his vivid works that deconstruct existing imagery. Since the ‘70s, he’s referenced and combined everything from Impressionism and Post-War American Art to advertisements and his own photography.
Apr 26, 2018 · David Salle, Fooling with your Hair, 1985. Courtesy of the artist and Skarstedt Gallery. Such depictions of women (or, depictions of photographs of women) have garnered Salle plenty of vitriol. In defending these works, he returns to his ideas about theatricality and his engagement with the ballet.
Salle continued to challenge his creativity through the exploration of different art forms. During the 1990s, he began producing sculptures, and also started exhibiting his photography. Many black-and-white images became the basis for his painted canvases.
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