ANDREW SALGADO – ANXIOUS
2011-10-31This is Andrew Salgado’s first solo exhibition in New York City, sees the artist drawing upon historic masculine portraiture handled with an experimental, painterly sensibility, suggesting themes of displaced identity and an overriding technical love for the medium. Salgado’s paintings are an exploration of the concept of masculine identity through an assertive, gestural approach to figurative representation.
The works reference Classical archetypes found in figurative masculine portraiture, while prioritizing a disregard for what Salgado views as the ‘parameters’ of figurative painting; Salgado himself recounts artists as diverse as Caravaggio, Veronese, Bjarne Melgaard, Francis Bacon, and Daniel Richter as influences. As a result, the works resonate with a frenetic, nearly schizophrenic energy, suggesting both a serene recollection of memory and convalescence (a number of the works feature mouthless boys, perhaps suggesting Salgado’s victimization in a 2008 hate-crime assault in which he lost his teeth,) but move beyond mere solipsism in favor of metaphor, narrative and aggressive, abstract brushwork.
Opposite – The Patience, 2011
Exhibition runs through to November 18th, 2011
Tache Gallery
547 W 27 Street No.602
New York
NY 10001
