David Salle earned a BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, where he studied with John Baldessari.
19 Facts About David Salle
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David Salle was born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents on September 28,1952, in Norman, Oklahoma, but grew up in Wichita, Kansas.
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David Salle developed an interest in art at a very young age, spending his childhood and teenage years in art classes provided by a local art organization.
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David Salle earned his BFA in three years, then received his MFA in two.
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Around the same time, David Salle was hired by the American Ballet Theatre to design set and costumes for dancer and choreographer Karole Armitage.
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In 1995, David Salle made his Hollywood directorial debut with Search and Destroy, starring Christopher Walken and Griffin Dunne and produced by Martin Scorsese.
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David Salle manipulates images by combining a variety of different styles, recognizable imagery, and textures.
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David Salle's work was featured in The Pictures Generation, an exhibition curated by Douglas Eklund at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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David Salle's work was shown among a number of other contemporary artists including Richard Prince, Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Dwyer, Robert Longo, Thomas Lawson, Charles Clough, and Michael Zwack.
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David Salle has said that his choices of image are far from random, and that the pieces he chooses are cross-referenced with one another in complex ways.
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David Salle believes this to be his form of originality in pieces that he appropriates.
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David Salle has done set and costume design and directed films.
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David Salle is a longtime collaborator with the choreographer Karole Armitage, designing sets and costumes for her ballets.
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David Salle has explored the use of artificial intelligence in his art.
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David Salle has described the generative AI as useful because he can conceptualize variations of artwork when brainstorming ideas for new paintings.
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David Salle worked closely with fellow contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, and John Baldessari in creating this collection.
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David Salle's writing is much like his artistic style, witty and intriguing.
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David Salle believes the jargon associated with art history can and should be simplified so that those who are interested but lack fine art schooling can still learn about and appreciate art.
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David Salle's work is in the permanent collections of numerous art museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.