Andrew Salgado "Anxious"

Tache Gallery

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ANXIOUS, 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. ANXIOUS is a collection of nearly one-dozen, never before exhibited works (all from 2011) featuring portraits that loom from the canvas with a sensuous, aggressive painterliness and politically-charged narrative.

Conceptually, Salgado’s practice (re)considers the tangibility and impermanence of the body, but also inwardly comments upon the fragility of self. Accordingly, Salgado typically exploits the purely physical properties of media to inform resonating themes within his work. In an effort to surpass a literal (re)presentation of his subject-matter, he prioritizes a visceral, topographic painting surface and at times, a use of paint that calls attention to - and celebrates - its sheer materiality. The work asks for consideration of an evolving language of figuration and abstraction, calling attention to what is visible and what is suggested: pulling the viewer from the sutures of representation, and drawing attention to the painterly versus the metaphorical.

ANDREW SALGADO (b. 1982, Canada) lives and works in London, UK. He holds an MFA from London’s Chelsea College of Art (2009) and has exhibited in London, Berlin, Oslo, Vancouver, Toronto, Venezuela, and Niamey (Niger). Forthcoming solo exhibitions include The Misanthrope, Beers.Lambert Contemporary, London, UK, (2012); New Paintings, Dosi Gallery, Busan, Korea (2012); Black Paintings, MellerMerceux, Oxford, UK; and The Acquaintance, Art Gallery of Regina, Regina, Canada (2012). Previous solo exhibitions include Paint Your Black Heart Red, Galerei Atopia, Oslo, Norway (2010); and Boys Night Out, Interurban Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2008). Noteworthy group exhibitions include Transgression, Beers.Lambert Contemporary Art, London, UK (2011); Golden, La Petit Mort Gallery, Ottawa, Canada (2011); Art For Life [featured artist], Vancouver, Canada (2011); the 2010 Merida Venezuela Biennale; and the Courtauld Institute Academy Hang IX along Gary Hume and Tracy Emin (2010-11), London, UK. He was awarded Courvoisier’s Future 500 (2010), shortlisted for Art of Giving at London’s Saatchi Gallery (2010), and will be featured in the forthcoming Channel 4 (UK) documentary The Science of Art alongside Anish Kapoor and Bridget Riley (2011).

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Schedule

from October 13, 2011 to November 18, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-10-13 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Andrew Salgado

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