From installations that shift perspective to layered paintings and mixed-media works, Salisbury’s visual art transforms observation into experience, asking viewers to move around, through, and within the image. Her visual practice is organized in series, each exploring a specific question of perception, space, or seeing.
Waconah Reconstruction
Pierced Screen (front)
1987
Mixed media
168” x 94” x 30"
Waconah Reconstruction
Pierced Screen (verso)
1987
Mixed media
168” x 94” x 30"
Forests
Forest Fall
1983
Acrylic on cut canvas
78” x 91”
Gilles
The Red Cord
1980
Oil pastel on paper
22” x 30”
Topiary Gardens
Yew Arch
Levens Hall
1981
Oil pastel on paper
22” x 30”
Seven Deadly Sins & Vanity
Greed
1975
Lino cut
19” x 24”
Selected Publications
Rivers I and II”, Contact Quarterly, Winter/Spring. Dana Salisbury text and images 1995
Dana Salisbury: Wahconah Reconstruction. Catalog text. Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA 1991
Women’s Work: Five Fusion/Fission Projects. Video catalog. Real Art Ways 1990
New Artists:The Gloria Wilcher Memorial Exhibition. Catalog. Currier Gallery 1989
The Ninth Annual Boston Drawing Show. Catalog. Boston Center for the Arts 1988
Berkshire Art Association Exhibition of Works on Paper. Catalog. Berkshire Museum 1988
Berkshire Art Assoc. Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture. Catalog. Berkshire Museum 1985
“Visions Twice Removed: The Art of Dana Salisbury” . Garden Design by Robin Karson 1983
New Drawing in America. Catalog. The Drawing Center, NYC 1982
Words and Images: A Contemporary Artist’s Book Exhibition. Catalog.
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Pittsburg Center for the Arts, S. Alleghenies Museum of Art 1981
Re:Pages: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Bookworks. Catalog.
Traveling exhibition organized by the Hera, circulated by New England Foundation for the Arts 1981
Visual Art Awards + Grants
Massachusetts Cultural Council, “New Works” 1989
National Endowment for the Arts Regional Inter-Arts Re-grant 1989
Northampton (MA) Arts Council 1985, 1987, 1994, 1996, 2004
Film and Video Workshop Grant Brighton, England 1984
Ossabaw Island Artist Residency 1981