David Salle’s career has spanned over four decades. Known as one of the major lights of “postmodern painting,” he conjures swirling masses of imagery culled from many sources. He also happens to be a ...
In 2011, David Salle is just about the last Postmodernist Painter. Back in the wild and woolly 1980s, he had plenty of company -- Julian Schnabel, Eric Fischl, Robert Longo, Francesco Clemente, even ...
At 6:15 p.m. yesterday in a meeting room at Christie’s auction house, a few people sat around waiting for a slide lecture by the artist David Salle to begin. A slight, intense-looking man in a gray ...
An art star who rose to towering prominence in the heady days of the 1980s, David Salle, has a bold new painting show at Barbara Gladstone called “New Pastorals.” Part of the brash cohort of Julian ...
Read an excerpt from an essay Salle wrote for an exhibition he curated at the Hill Art Foundation, "Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained." Installation view: "Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained." Hill Art ...
In trying to describe to me how to approach his paintings, David Salle had to resort to musical analogies. “I like paint, I like painting, and different paints do different things,” he told me as he ...
David Salle's reputation proceeds him. The sophistication of his work was as evident when he was a young student at CalArts in the 1970s as it is now, certainly a significant factor in his rise to ...
It is easy to think that David Salle is a jerk, when you`re standing around the streets of New Yorks` TriBeCa at 1 a.m., watching the sprinkler at the Farm and Garden Nursery, pacing past yuppies ...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a painter in possession of a home-slash-studio must be in want of great light. David Salle, the Oklahoma-born, East Hampton–based artist, is no exception, ...
Art Basel Paris has settled into its second year at the Grand Palais with the confidence of a show that knows where it stands.