Description
First Edition, 2019
Essays by Peter Frank, Mike McGee, and Kelly Tucker
“In contemporary artistic practice, style and substance have not only converged, they have become contiguous. An artist like Bradford Salamon however, resists – and certainly subverts – this notion of stylistic “branding.” Salamon utilizes his mastery of several approaches to representational painting, however closely those approaches might be related, to add depth and nuance to his images. But in exercising multiple manners – different strokes, you might say, for different folks – Salamon submits his skills to the task of interpretation, favoring the portrayal of his subjects, human and otherwise, over the assertion of his own artistic identity. This midcareer retrospective highlights Salamon’s portraiture and still life work, including studies and detailed documentation of his process, step by step.”