Forever now david salle biography
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David Salle Has a Headline in Mind for This Interview
David Salle, photographed by Frenel Morris. All artwork images courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London.
David Salle’s assistant greets me at the door of his studio in the East Hamptons on a very late August afternoon. David will just be a moment. It’s about to rain. Light falls through the skylight and cools on the concrete floor, where steps strangely don’t echo.
There are, in the studio, two unfinished paintings in the style most recently deployed by Salle, most recently on view in the exhibition World People at Lehmann Maupin in Seoul. I would describe this style (indeed, I am describing it) as being oppositional and defiant, as well as pointed, slightly garish, droll. Each painting comprises two canvases or panels, one greater in height and more figurative, one lower and more abstract, so as to evoke something of a clash between appearance and action. Salle, of late, has d
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DAVID SALLE
Born 1952 in Norman, Oklahoma
Lives and works in New York, NY
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Solo Exhibitions
2024
“David Salle,” Pace Prints, New York, NY
"New Pastorals," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
"David Salle: Works on Paper," Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, NY
2023
"DAVID SALLE, The Sporting Life," Dylan Brant Fine Art, Palm Beach, Florida
"World People," Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, South Korea
“Tree of Life, This Time with Feeling,” Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, France
2022
“David Salle,” The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT
“David Salle,” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2021
“David Salle," The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT
“David Salle: Tree of Life,” Skarstedt, New York
“David Salle: Alchemy in Real Life,” Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, Korea
“David Salle: Pictures of People and Paintings on Magazines,” Vortic, Online Exhibition
2020
“Works on Paper,” Skarstedt, East Hampton, NY
“David Salle; Self-Ironing Pants and Other Paintings,” Gal
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Structure Rising: David Salle on ‘The Forever Now’ at MoMA
“The alltid Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World” is MoMA’s first survey of recent painting in over 30 years. In the museum’s crowded sixth-floor galleries, curator Laura Hoptman has corralled 17 artists who have come to notice in the last decade or so, and collectively they give off a synaptic charge. There are a fair number of clunkers, but the majority of the painters here display an honestly arrived-at complexity, expressed through a rigorous series of choices made at what feels like a granularly visual level. Their work rewards hard looking.
The good artists in the show are very good indeed. Charline von Heyl, Josh Smith, Richard Aldrich, Amy Sillman, Mark Grotjahn, Nicole Eisenman, Rashid Johnson, Joe Bradley, and Mary Weatherford have all developed tenacious and highly individual styles. Each makes work that engages the viewer on the paintings’ own terms a