Michael Salerno

“From Through”
“Fortuna”

Conscious automatism can reveal.  Indicators or manifestations of human range of motion [as affected by muscle fatigue, respiratory and neural systems, as well as brain functions, thought process, genetic data and possibly other forces] are presented via a retina-activating visual format, for the viewer’s undirected free association.  Accumulated aesthetics are inherently incorporated during the closely observed process.  More and varied information is perceived as the picture plane is observed over time and from different focal distances.

One issue central to my work is the under-investigated All-Over approach to pictorial composition. Consider that Jackson Pollock was the inventor of All-Over painting - where a picture has no central point of composition and is unified by the materials an artist uses and the style with which the artist integrates these materials for the pleasure of the viewer. For all of the groundbreaking that Pollock accomplished, there have been few if any artists committing their careers to walk further down the trail he blazed. Being unable to walk through the door he had opened, Pollock later reverted to figuration. To qualify as a pioneer, artists subsequently were required to direct their explorations to other areas of study and innovation. Considering that All-Over Painting is younger than Surrealism, cinema and photography, there is ample territory to be investigated and I have been devoted to pushing the All-Over genre to new optical possibilities that retain a purity and immediacy in technique and results.

-Michael Salerno

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