Sally Smith

"In Around About Way" Sculptural wall installation of bronze murmuring birds

The historic tradition of cast bronze provides a contemporary avenue for the creation of Wayne Salge’s abstracted human and animal figures. Thoroughly modern and distinctly impressio...

I first realized my love for visual storytelling when I began producing and directing television shows. Starting with the writer’s script, my palette was everything seen through the camera’s lens: actors, movement, light, and mood. Shot by shot, I wove together these images into two-dimensional dramas. I longed, however, to tell my own stories, to move beyond words and pictures, and to explore themes that ignited my imagination. My sculptures and assemblages became the three-dimensional stories I wanted to tell; stories about relationships, childhood, time passage, marriage, motherhood, and secrets never told. My sculpting process always begins with a tiny bit of clay to which I add more, never knowing how any piece will end. I don’t use models...

The early 21st century finds the artist an avid plein air painter, enlarging her small sketches into large landscapes of the western states. Now settled in Santa Fe, NM, with her hus...

The early 21st century finds the artist an avid plein air painter, enlarging her small sketches into large landscapes of the western states. Now settled i...