Monica DeSalvo Art

Monica DeSalvo’s “Sunny Side Down” is a surreal mixed media collage over an asymmetrical digital inkjet photo montage on Yupo paper with blue, green, teal, white, and purple. The abs...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Cochlear Caper” is a surreal mixed media collage on archival paper using fragments of acrylic monotypes printed on various papers including math homework from DeSal...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Throwing Stones” is a diptych of two 4.25 x 6 inch collages on abstract acrylic monotypes. Green lettuce, tan and ivory eggs, and blurred fields of red, maroon, and...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Indoctrinated Oblivion” is an abstract mixed media collage over acrylic monotypes in blue, orange, and pink, black and white. The monotypes were created using a Gel...

Monica DeSalvo’s “A Bus Tour in the Woods—Stage 5” is a 22 x 30 inch triptych with three collages on acrylic monotypes with black, gray, dark and lime greens, orange, pink, purple, a...

Monica DeSalvo’s "Fallen Dream" is a 12 x 18 minimalist abstract mixed media collage on mat board with bright blue, chartreuse green, black, gray, white, yellow, red, and a hint of p...

Monica DeSalvo’s “System Liability" is a 16 x 20 abstract collage, deconstructed and reassembled as five separate parallel panels. The collage was built on an acrylic monotype create...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Cairns” is an 18 x 24 collage made up of a series of 4 individual 11 x 4.25 inch abstract collages with red, silver, chartreuse green, yellow, black, and blue on pa...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Stream of Cobbleness” is a 20 x 16 abstract collage composed of organically shaped fragments of acrylic monoprints in pink, green, yellow, green, teal, and blue. Th...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Cochlear Cornucopia” is a 15 x 22 inch surreal collage on an abstract acrylic drip painting with dark purple, green, pink, blue, and white. Whimsical images are nes...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Build. Repair. Adjust.” is a 30 x 22 inch abstract graffiti-like acrylic “print” painting on paper. Bold curved shapes inspired by a Bauhaus teapot...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Dressed Up Properties” is a 22 x 30 inch triptych composed of three abstract acrylic monoprints with leaf forms. Red, yellow, royal blue, magenta, pink, sky blue, and hints of green and orange run from bright and crisp to muted and distressed. Handwritten math equations are exposed through the imagery on the left and right panels printed on vintage ruled...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Up-sun-down” is a surreal mixed media collage over a digital inkjet photo montage printed on Yupo paper. The abstract montage of blue, tan, sage green, yellow, and ...

Monica DeSalvo’s “The End of Sums" is a mixed-media collage on paper with three abstract acrylic monotypes in green, purple, magenta, and yellow. The triptych-like composition has a ...

Monica DeSalvo’s “What about the numbers?” is a 48 x 24 inch surreal collage built on a digital enlargement of collaged monotype fragments and a black a...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Cochlear Conundrum” is a 16 x 20 mixed media collage with blue, yellow, and turquoise monotype fragments printed on vintage paper, a ruled xerox report with black type, a white conch...

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...

Monica DeSalvo’s “A Bus Tour in the Woods—Stage 6” is a 36 x 24 inch surreal collage on a digital enlargement of two acrylic monotypes printed onto archival foamcore. Magenta, violet, green, and creamy yellow organic, botanical forms with impressions of leaves contrast with lists of numbers and vintage document rules. The original images were printed with a Gelli plate...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Lucidity” is a 38 x 24 inch unique digital inkjet print of a surreal collage first built on an enlarged abstract monotype and then emb...

Monica DeSalvo’s “A Golden Place” is a 16 x 12 inch abstract minimalist collage on paper with a golden wheat field, a bold graphic shape containing brig...

Monica DeSalvo’s “From here to the end, which isn’t very far away” is a 9.5 x 9.5 inch abstract collage over an acrylic on paper. Golden hair, a bronze wing, clear gemstones, and yellow flowers blend into ethereal violet purple tones accented with lavender dots. Soft gray yarn and a matrix of curved blocks add contrasting textures, enhancing depth. The underlying monotype was made using a Gelli plate...

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 “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...

Monica DeSalvo’s “A different plateau” is a 20 x 16 inch collage with watery acrylic paint and a black line drawing on printmaking paper. Hand drawn dia...

Monica DeSalvo’s “It’s nature leaving you alone” is a 28 x 22 inch surreal collage on archival watercolor paper. Aerial photos of expansive landscapes a...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Two Spaghetti Spoons'' is a 28 x 20 inch playful acrylic painting on 100% cotton archival printmaking paper with deckled edges. Bold b...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Wind Systems” is a 16 x 12 inch abstract diptych with asymmetrical collages on chipboard. Bright yellow, blue, green, purple, and gray organic acrylic...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Looking Around for You” is a 11 x 14 inch abstract collage built on an acrylic monotype with bright red, bronze, green, silver, and black botanical...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Threshold” is an 18 x 24 inch surreal mixed media collage comprised of a red and orange acrylic monotype on felt textured paper with cut-out leaf forms, and an abstract collage on cream ledger paper with black distressed writing, brown, gray, and gold. A cluster of images with lily pads connects the two halves. Collage elements include DeSalvo’s late father’s paper memorabilia such as the ledger paper, black and white cavalry horses, and legs sitting in a chair. Print fragments are from work created using a Gelli plate...

Monica DeSalvo’s “Thar She Blows” merges two acrylic abstract monoprints into a 20 x 16 inch work with a vertical seam. Crisp masses of yellow and oliv...