Salle, David

(9/28/1952 Norman, OK- ) (USA)

   Painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Earned a B.F.A. and M.F.A. at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA under J. Baldessari. Early in his career he was a paste-up artist for a porn publisher. His work combines figures with abstract forms, juxtaposing images from the mass media.

   Reproductions: Untitled [exposed nude woman with a scene of a man about to butcher a pig superimposed over her]; 1984; watercolor; Neret 1993: p. 46 .

   Source: Benezit, vol. 12: pp. 306-307; DoA vol. 27: p. 633; Joyce Fernandes, "Exposing a phallocentric discourse: images of women in the art of David Salle," New Art Examiner 14 (November 1986): pp 32-34; Eleanor Heartney, "David Salle: impersonal effects," Art in America 76, 6 (June 1988): pp. 120-129+; C. Millet, "David Salle: la peinture qwue le regard," Art Press 89 (February 1985): pp. 18-21; Robert Storr, "Salle's gender machine," Art in America 76, 6 (June 1988): pp. 24-25.