Monica DeSalvo

"Preserving Loss", diptych, surreal, collage, ocean, sunset, pink, orange, gray

2022

Patty deGrandpre’s “The Beauty on the Way There” is a predominately turquoise blue, black, grey, and red contemporary abstract landscape represented on a 16 x 20 x 2 inch “Ampersand Claybord” block embracing creative photography, mixed media, and collage. Snapshots of a Western United States highway and it’s vast scenic surroundings are printed on Awagami Bamboo Japanese paper in both black and white as well as monochromatic red. The prints are cropped and combined with thoughtfully shaped monoprint fragments and collaged onto smooth fields of turquoise and grey hued water based block printing ink. The graphic design approach to this modern composition is appreciated as the viewer recognizes a glimpse through a car window of distant mountains and roadside terrain. A rectangular red and blue print reminiscent of vintage floral wallpaper...

Monica DeSalvo’s “This is a Leaky Place” is a 36 x 24 inch surreal collage on watercolor paper. A digital montage of two photos in opposite orientations show illuminated cloudy skies...

Monica DeSalvo’s “The Red Book” is a 37 x 24 inch digital enlargement of a surreal collage on paper embellished with mixed media. The abstract base contai...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Swinging against plumb” is a 36 x 24 inch surreal collage on a digital enlargement of two adjoined acrylic monoprints on paper. Wavy l...

Patty deGrandpre’s “The Long Part of the Drive” is a predominately blue, yellow, and gold unique contemporary abstract landscape represented on a 16 x 20 x 2 inch “Ampersand Claybord...

Monica DeSalvo’s “We didn’t take the plane—the plane took us!” is a lively 30 x 22 inch surreal collage on paper. Abstract areas of lime green, red, royal blue, and deep yellow embed...

Original NYPD interceptor sculpture made of archival paper, dry pigments, enamel, wood, clay, wire, plastic, and inkjet print by Drew Leshko measuring 16"h x 16"w x 3"d framed, as sh...

Memento is the root of Angelica's odyssey, it is both a pilgrimage and its migration. These mixed media pieces vividly reflect on what is both past and present. Angelica’s multi-l...

"Garlic Mashed Potato Fireworks" is a mixed media work by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. Starting with a giclee print of one of his original works, the artist drew over it...

"Purple Mountain with Boomerang" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett, signed in the lower left corner. This tiny painting features a mounta...

This intriguing mixed media painting and collage is signed illegibly in the lower right. Dated 1982 with the words "Who is that Masked Woman" scratched into the lower left.

17"x22" Inkjet on aluminum, found objects (Big Red Fox, Little Red Fox), ceramic, vinyl Melissa Pokorny's work focuses on the sense of space, and its role in structuring memory and identity. Her larger-scale sculptures, mixed media tableaus, and installations incorporate fragmented images of landscape and nature that highlight contested spaces, borders and boundaries between the natural world and our presence in it. Pokorny's recent work explores literal and metaphorical attachments , in a call-and-response between people, places, and things. The sense of absence prevails, emphasized by situations that illicit awareness of loss -- of losing one's was, or the loss of memory to time and distance. People go missing, and things are left behind. Mellissa Pokorny has been an exhibiting artist for over twenty years. Her large scale, assemblage-based sculptural works have been widely exhibited at venues across the US. Recent solo shows at Platform Gallery in Seattle and Front Room Gallery in New York augment a long career of solo exhibitions, beginning with Gallery Paule Anglim, in San Francisco and continuing with Bodybuilder and Sportsman in Chicago. Selected group exhibitions include venues such as Yerba Buena Gardens, Southern Exposure, Victoria Room, and New Langton Arts in San Francisco, Foodhouse Gallery in Los Angeles, Gallery 400, Columbia College,The James Hotel, and Devening Projects +Editions in Chicago, and The Richard Peeler...