Salto Solo Exhibition

SALTO

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May 1 - May 15, 2019 Jackson Hole

SALTO Guest Artist Solo Exhibition

Jackson Hole | Scottsdale | AltamiraArt.com

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Mis Amigos Acrylic on paper | 32 x 26 inches Enquire

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Guest Artist Solo Exhibition From abstraction, figures emerge—an aesthetic resolution achieved in both his paintings and his life. After a lifetime spent appreciating contemporary and Western art, Salto emerged five years ago as the painterly alter ego of an entrepreneur based in Lost Creek, Wyoming and Houston, Texas. Befitting the Spanish translation of “salto”—to jump—he dove headlong into his art, tackling scale and complexity with gusto and mastery.

Jackson Pollock inspired his first forays into painting, and continues to dictate his easeldefying technique of working above canvases on the floor or tabletops. After six months of Pollockian exploration, he began to articulate his own practice the moment he picked up a palette knife and started physically carving angularity into his compositions. Now, he approaches other artists’ works—by the likes of Mark Tobey and George Kondo—as points of departure for his own paintings. An art aficionado, he travels widely to see exhibitions; a recent trip to the Armory Show in New York found him mesmerized by the Venezuelan modernist Oswaldo Vigas, and he began a constructivist painting with Vigas’ genius in mind only to let the painting take on a trajectory all its own.

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The intensity of balancing a global business and an authentic art practice creates a productive friction for Salto. He paints in the interstices of his profession: in the morning, at night, on weekends. He considers many of his most successful paintings “rescues,” works that threated to remain stuck in a roadblock for weeks, months, even years. With time, he developed a strategy for thwarting such stasis: spot the figure in the abstraction, and build the composition from that place of humanism. Colorblind, he moves in tonal

directions, oftentimes burying dominate moments in swaths of white.

Salto abides by no rules, save for his instinct as a collector and artist. Staging his debut at Altamira marks a confluence of his two identities, a merging of the company he keeps within his own art collection—he recently installed one of Robert Townsend’s Helen paintings in his corporate office—and now the company he keeps as an artist. A tandem jump.

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Red and White Mixed media | 56 x 124 inches Enquire

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Red, Black, Yellow Acrylic on canvas | 72 x 36 inches Enquire

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Blue, Green, Gray Acrylic on canvas | 72 x 36 inches Enquire

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Los Surf Dudes Anoche 2 Mixed media on board | 48 x 50 inches Enquire

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Los Cinco Mixed media on canvas | 58 x 110 inches Enquire

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Bots Wana Mixed media on paper | 32 x 26 inches Enquire

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Bloques Rojos Mixed media on canvas | 58 x 89 inches Enquire

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Mr. Surprise Mixed media on paper | 32 x 26 inches Enquire

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Jessica Mixed media on paper | 32 x 26 inches Enquire

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Hospital Green Mixed media on canvas | 49 x 96 inches Enquire

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In the City Mixed media on paper | 26 x 32 inches Enquire

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Blue and White Acrylic on canvas | 72 x 48 inches Enquire

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Three Women Acrylic on paper | 27 x 23 inches Enquire

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