Artists & Actors

Date1990-91

Maker David Salle American, born 1952

Label TextDavid Salle's bumptious juxtapositions of unrelated images made his work a hallmark of 1980s Postmodernism, where artists and critics attempted to grapple with the barrage of visual stimuli from television, movies, and print media. The lapses of continuity between passages in paintings such as this, however, shift the responsibility of interpretation back on the viewer, and offer no easy answers.

Object number2014.25.71

Provenance[Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, Apr. 5, 1991

Photo CreditPhoto: Nathaniel Willson

Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, Gagosian Gallery, David Salle, Mar. 21 - May 4, 1991 Monterrey, Mexico, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, David Salle: Paintings and works on paper, 1981 – 1999, March - June, 2000Published References“David Salle.” New York: Gogosian Gallery, 1991. Unpaginated, plate 3. Hopps, Walter, et al. “David Salle.” Monterrey, Mexico: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, 2000.

Credit LineGift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum

Dimensions115 x 90 in. (292.1 x 228.6 cm)

MediumAcrylic on photolinen canvas with 3 inserted panels