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Biography of David Salle
Name: David Salle
Birth Date: 1952
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Norman, Oklahoma, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: artist
David Salle
The American artist David Salle (born 1952) combined the human figure with abstract forms in many of his works, presenting disturbing meditations on our modern existence.David Salle was born in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1952 and spent much of his youth in Wichita, Kansas, before going to California to study art at the age of 18. He received both his B.F.A. (1973) and M.F.A. (1975) from the California Institute of the Arts while studying under the artist John Baldessari. In 1975, at the age of 22, he moved to New York to embark on a career as a painter. His early years in New York, where he still resided in the early 1990s, were financially difficult ones, so much so that in 1976 he declared bankruptcy. As a result, he was forced to support himself by taking on odd jobs working alternately as a cook, teacher, and even a paste-up artist in the art …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…movie is a mess." Though much ado was made about the opening and that this was his first attempt, little good was said about the production. Although it had infomercial hosts, closet scriptwriters --for slasher flicks, drug dealers, gangsters and a bit of love thrown in for good measure; some of the actors were "dangerously out of control, the tell-tale sign of a rookie director." Further Reading In a paperback volume, David Salle (1986), Janet Kardon traced the transition of the artist from the 1970s to the 1980s.There were many critical articles and numerous museum catalogues concerned with the art of David Salle. Some excellent sources containing background material that place Salle within his historical context are H.H. Arnason, History of Modern Art, 3rd edition (1986), and Howard Smagula, Currents: Contemporary Directions in the Visual Arts, 2nd edition (1989). See also Chicago Tribune "Puzzling `Search' Self-Destructs," 05/12/95 and Current Biography Yearbook(1986), pages 488-491.
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