Sam Salisbury
07 Jul - 06 Aug 2005
SAM SALISBURY
7 July - 6 August 2005
Private View: Wednesday 6 July, 6 - 8 pm
Alison Jacques Gallery is pleased to announce the first European solo show of work by American artist Sam Salisbury. For his London show, Salisbury will show 2 large works on canvas, smaller works on panel and a new series of pencil drawings.
Sam Salisbury’s paintings and drawings vary from highly detailed images of men and women in strange uncanny situations to more ambiguous works that include both representational and abstract elements. Exploring various techniques and methods of painting and drawing, Salisbury uses unusual color combinations and creates extremely stylized renderings of the human figure. He uses images from the mass media as well as his own photographs and films to create composite figures, with the men usually small, bearded, and reminiscent of the hippies of the late-1960s and 1970s, and the women presented as towering, excessively glamorous, fashion-model types. These figures often appear in natural settings and their relationships are undefined, prompting viewer to draw their own conclusions or form their own narrative. The psychologically complex relationship between the sexes in these works recalls the paintings of John Currin (American, b. 1962) and the comic art of R. Crumb (American, b. 1943).
Text by Dominic Mollon, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Sam Salisbury was born in Mission Viejo, California (1977) and graduated from The Art Institute of Chicago (1991). Solo shows include Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 12x12 exhibition curated by Dominic Mollon, a show with Gaylen Gerber at Donald Young Gallery, Chicago and Marc Jancou Fine Art, New York (2004).
For information, please contact Laura Lord on tel: 020 7287 7675
7 July - 6 August 2005
Private View: Wednesday 6 July, 6 - 8 pm
Alison Jacques Gallery is pleased to announce the first European solo show of work by American artist Sam Salisbury. For his London show, Salisbury will show 2 large works on canvas, smaller works on panel and a new series of pencil drawings.
Sam Salisbury’s paintings and drawings vary from highly detailed images of men and women in strange uncanny situations to more ambiguous works that include both representational and abstract elements. Exploring various techniques and methods of painting and drawing, Salisbury uses unusual color combinations and creates extremely stylized renderings of the human figure. He uses images from the mass media as well as his own photographs and films to create composite figures, with the men usually small, bearded, and reminiscent of the hippies of the late-1960s and 1970s, and the women presented as towering, excessively glamorous, fashion-model types. These figures often appear in natural settings and their relationships are undefined, prompting viewer to draw their own conclusions or form their own narrative. The psychologically complex relationship between the sexes in these works recalls the paintings of John Currin (American, b. 1962) and the comic art of R. Crumb (American, b. 1943).
Text by Dominic Mollon, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Sam Salisbury was born in Mission Viejo, California (1977) and graduated from The Art Institute of Chicago (1991). Solo shows include Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 12x12 exhibition curated by Dominic Mollon, a show with Gaylen Gerber at Donald Young Gallery, Chicago and Marc Jancou Fine Art, New York (2004).
For information, please contact Laura Lord on tel: 020 7287 7675