DAVID SALLE
b. 1952, United StatesArtist David Salle always finds his way back to the fundamental building blocks of painting: line, shape, colour, texture, and most importantly, composition. An imagist at heart, Salle has spent much of his career exploring how images can be constructed from those basic elements.
His work demonstrates the essential, even inescapable reciprocity of image and pure painting. In his first exhibition with Gladstone, Salle presents a new series of paintings that each tell their own story through a pictorial language merged with the materiality – the facticity – of paint.
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