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Pas de Deux I, Alex Katz, 1983 Born in Norman, Oklahoma, David Salle is an American painter whose reputation reached its peak during the 1980s. Also a sculptor, photographer, stage designer and film director, after studying at the California Institute of Arts, he settled in New York City in 1975. Widely known for his postmodern style, he populates his usually large canvases with dramatic images lifted from sources as various as his own black-and-white photographs, 18th through 20th century French and American painting, print advertising from the fifties, and “how to draw” manuals. This combination of images gave his paintings a mystery and charge that intrigued the art world in the eighties and made him one of the “stars” of postmodern and neoexpressionist art. Alex Katz, Pas de Deux 1, 1983, serigraph, paper/image size: 36 x 20 inches. |
In 2002, Salle co-wrote a book with Enzo Cucchi titled, Alex Katz: Unfamiliar Images, which uses illustrations of works by Katz and includes an interview with Salle.