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online ........marc salz: inliquid.commorton feldman: art tributes
Marc Salz, 226 Gaskill Street, Philadelphia Pa. 19147
tel: 215-925-3679 - cell: 215-738-6683
email: MSalz69897@aol dot com
My pieces contain images of earth, water, fire and embryonic shapes that belong to an archaic world existing beneath this modern surface. Elements of both seriousness and humor are presented side by side in a gentle subversion of the modernist tradition.
date of birth
December 16, 1949, New York, NY
education
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, 1976
University of the Arts, Philadelphia,1972, BFA
Syracuse University, School of Art, 1970
awards
Temple University Fellowship, 1976
gallery
The More Gallery, 1630 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
one person exhibitions
2005- The More Gallery, 1630 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
2004- The More Gallery Inc, Philadelphia, PA
2000- Design Arts Gallery, Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA
1996- Millersville Univ. of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA
1993- The More Gallery Inc. Philadelphia, PA
1989- New Paintings, Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Phila., PA
1979- Philadelphia Art Alliance
group exhibitions
2006- "Variety Show", Falling Cow Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005-"Specific Density", Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2003- "The Old Fire Station Show", Chelmsford, United Kingdom
2002-"Pure", Eight Philadelphia Painters
Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Phila., PA
2002-group show @ground zero, Artyama Gallery, New York, NY
2001- Nason-Williams Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
1998- "Intimate Illuminations", White Box Gallery, Phila. and NY
1993-"Eight Abstract Artists", American College, Bryn Mawr, PA
1991- "Deeton/Lefens/Salz", the More Gallery Inc. Phila. PA
1991-"The Next Show", The Gallery, Easton, PA
1990-"Artists Choose Artists", Institute of Contemporary Art,
Philadelphia, PA (chosen by Warren Rohrer)
1990-Gallery Artists,The More Gallery Inc. Phila. PA
1990- "Five Philadelphia Painters", Millersville, PA
1989-Chicago International Art Exposition, Dolan/Maxwell Gallery
1988-"Perspectives from Pennsylvania", Carnegie Mellon University
Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1988- "Meat-Art at the Broiling Point", Mcneil Gallery, Phila. PA
1987- "National Meat", Washington D.C., Chicago and Phila.
1987-"Abstract Art in City Hall", Philadelphia City Hall
1986- Momenta, Phila. PA
1985- Philadelphia Drawing Competition, Phila. Art Alliance
1981-"Opens Friday", Moore College of Art, Phila. PA
1979-"Salute to Creative Youth", New York, N.Y.
1975- The David Roberts Gallery, Phila. PA
publications
1990-"Artists Choose Artists", Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1989- Chicago International Art Exposition, Dolan/Maxwell Gallery
reviews
"Abstract Paintings on Display at College", Victoria Donohoe, Phila Inquirer, 3/7/93
"Deeton/Lefens/Salz", Edward Sozanski, Phila Inquirer, 6/27/91Salz's tools are geometry and color; his multipanel pictures look like aggregations of colored blocks. He emphasizes the 'constructed' aspect of his paintings; they're built of panels and studs, so they express themselves more as solid objects than most paintings. Salz's most interesting effect is the tug of war between the physical shapes of the component panels and the forms implied by the vivid blocks of color, which sometimes cross boundaries between panels. The eye struggles to reconcile the physical form of a painting and the assertive chromatic pattern that Salz has superimposed on it. This push-pull between hard edges and painted ones gives the paintings a dynamism that doesn't flag.
"Marc Salz, Dolan/Maxwell Gallery", Tom Csarzar, The New Art Examiner, 10/89
Viewed separately, these paintings are static, blunt statements. But when seen together, the eye passes from one abstract narrative to the next, and like separate events in a story they augment each other. As in a Grimms Brothers tale, or the St. Anthony panels by the Master of Osservanza, they declare their points clearly and without artifice.
Salz is not attempting abstract painting on the symphonic scope of Abstract Expressionism, nor in the Pop format of Neo-Geo. Rather, he creates simple but effective sonatas which do not waste either effort or space in telling their stories with a direct emotional charm."Meat", Mcneil Gallery, Victoria Donohoe, Phila Inquirer, 1/16/88
"National Meat '87", Christine Vaillancourt, WHYY-FM, Phila, 1987
"Art Salon '81", Judith Stein, WHYY-FM, Phila, 1981
"Forget Picasso, Here's Bumland", Joseph O'Donnell, Electricity Magazine, Aug 7=13, 1980
"Bumland", Judith Stein, WHYY-FM, Phila, 1980
"Guerrilla Gallerizing", Peter Frank, The Village Voice, 5/7/79
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