David Salle

David Salle is a contemporary American painter, printmaker, and photographer. A prominent Neo-Expressionist artist, his collage-like paintings feature overlapping imagery from a variety of sources, such as magazines, interior décor, and art history. His colorful compositions are rendered in a straightforward, uncomplicated style, layering different figures and patterns. “Ever since I started painting,” the artist has explained, “I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.”