"semi-permeable"
October 21 - November 25, 2006
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GrWS (Broken Down Strings with Bracket Evolutions)
Urethane enamel, epoxy, char, chalk, plastic and wax on wood.
80" X 48"
KELj (Giant Kelp with Calder)
Urethane, enamel, epoxy, ink, chalk, tape and wax on wood.
80" x 46"
CHRe (Chinese Orange with Cherry Clutch Head Replacement)
Urethane, char, enamel, metal, plastic and epoxy on wood.
80" X 32"
HoN3 and Hon1 (Fluid Shift with Unnecessarily Aggressive Paper Wasps)
Urethane, epoxy, enamel, papre wasps, wood cutouts, acrylic shavings and feather on wood.
79.5" x 55"
John Patrick Salisbury
The large scale paintings and assemblages by John Patrick Salisbury attempt to depict the abstractions of life throught the abstraction of painting. The mostly vertical wood panels that he paints on appear to be chaotic and random, but only because that is the stuff of all living things. From the tiniest forms of life - atoms, cells amoebas, to even the vibrating strings of string theory, the subject matter is a translation of that energy. They are also a story of painting, of the actual paint itself, transforming itself as it moves from chaos to compostion and back again. That evolution unfolds as a parralel narrative to the subjects he is striving to depict.
He uses paint, wax, epoxy and even the occasional insect, to create these enlarged versions of these microscopic visions.
John Patrick Salisbury grew up in a small town in the farming country of northern California. After living in New York for 6 years, he and his wife and daughter now live in rural Louisiana just outside New Orleans. John Patrick Salibury is also an accomplished photographer whose work has been shown througout the United States and in London, and has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles.
The large scale paintings and assemblages by John Patrick Salisbury attempt to depict the abstractions of life throught the abstraction of painting. The mostly vertical wood panels that he paints on appear to be chaotic and random, but only because that is the stuff of all living things. From the tiniest forms of life - atoms, cells amoebas, to even the vibrating strings of string theory, the subject matter is a translation of that energy. They are also a story of painting, of the actual paint itself, transforming itself as it moves from chaos to compostion and back again. That evolution unfolds as a parralel narrative to the subjects he is striving to depict.
He uses paint, wax, epoxy and even the occasional insect, to create these enlarged versions of these microscopic visions.
John Patrick Salisbury grew up in a small town in the farming country of northern California. After living in New York for 6 years, he and his wife and daughter now live in rural Louisiana just outside New Orleans. John Patrick Salibury is also an accomplished photographer whose work has been shown througout the United States and in London, and has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles.