Artist Statement
My studio is a place of expression, solitude, emotion, playfulness, tedium, escape from reality, light-heartedness, devotion and obsession. It is a haven where I can leave life and the world behind.
My work is the expression of a conversation I have with myself, where a long thread of thoughts connect ideas, memories and [...]
“Hercules Lite” replicated the form of architect Marcel Breuer’s massive support column at Lehman College Art Gallery in a transparent, fluorescent-edged green plexiglass. It used light and suspension to contrast with Breuer’s sense of weight, simultaneously calling attention to his achievement and entering into a dialog with it. [...]
For twenty years I was an open-air impressionist. Some combination of field, sky
and telephone pole would strike me and I would squint at it, judging how it would fit onto my rectangle. Sometimes while driving around looking for themes I would park and walk back to a scene I just passed, and find [...]
STATEMENT
My work is multidimensional and experimental in intent, operating in the domain between video, sculpture and installation. Along with materials such as furniture and raw plywood, I combine live video elements with sequential video stills, which are printed out on extended lengths of inkjet roll paper. This combination of materials gives me [...]
Mason Saltarrelli creates dynamic narrative works on paper and wood that utilize religious, tribal and personal symbology to relay abstracted context.
Inspired through the folk tale, Saltarrelli intermixes icons, saints, kachinas and personal language for an open ended story. A weathered patina provides an [...]
Inspired through the folk tale, Saltarrelli intermixes icons, saints, kachinas and personal language for an open ended story. A weathered patina provides an [...]
I am intrigued by layers. I relate layers to history. History becomes the vertical layers of a place and use them to investigate spatial depth in my artwork. I want the viewer to become aware of space as layers; to connect with the atmosphere as they move through it; to appreciate how perception of proportion [...]
I am painting the body as vehicle, simple forms with wheels or wings. These forms often appear inflated as with