CONTEMPORARY VISION

摘要

David Salle has made a career of creating compelling and provocative wholes from disparate elements—small canvases inset within larger ones, grisaille images painted over colored ones, abstract elements jostling figures, romantic visions of the past colliding with the brutal present—and he's done nothing less in his new Brooklyn house. Indeed, it seems fitting that an artist who has achieved fame with his layering of images should find himself in a home/studio that is a cheek-by-jowl clash of a gracious pre-Civil War townhouse and a fin de siecle skylighted and heavily corniced brick building that once served as a Masonic lodge.