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 ...

The artist David Salle recently directed a magazine shoot and interview with Scarlett Johansson that didn’t go so well for the actress. She also sat down with Salle for a long interview that touched ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do we see when we look at art? Many of us aren't sure what we're supposed to absorb. For artist David Salle, reading a painting should be natural, not intimidating. He believes that museum-goers ...

A good segment by The Glass House invites 1980s art superstar David Salle to the compound in New Canaan, Connecticut to explain how his works got into Philip Johnson's collection. When I visited ...

American painter David Salle is a leading contemporary Neo-Expressionist artist, known for his collage-like paintings characterized by juxtaposition and layering. Salle's subject matter often borders ...

The Pictures Generation painter David Salle is the beau ideal of a postmodernist who blurs the lines between high and low. High is inspiring a poem by a cosmopolitan bard (“A Dip in David Salle’s Pool ...

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