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.
X-Reflection
Acrylic on cut canvas
93 x 70in
X-Reflections 1987
Exhibition: AIR Gallery, NYC
1985-1989
Topiary in Green
Oil pastel
22 x 30in
Yew Arch
Oil pastel
22 x 30in
Yosemite 1985
Exhibition: AIR Gallery, NYC
Vernal Falls
Acrylic on tensioned canvas
90 x 100 x 24in
(one of five paintings)
Forests
Exhibitions: Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH; DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Scenes from the Life of Watteau’s Gilles
Exhibitions: The Drawing Center, NYC;
GWV Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA;
Boston University, Boston, MA
Pierced Screen
Front and verso
Mixed media
168 x 94 x 30in
Forest Fall
Acrylic on cut canvas, 78 x 91in
Beaver’s Work
60 x 100in
Marionetted Forest
Acrylic on cut canvas, wood and string, 80 x 92 x 26in
The Catch Is Cooked
Acrylic on canvas
54 x 52in
Homage to Fishbourne Roman Villa
48 x 52in
Line Dried
48 x 54in
Gilles Pieta
Oil on canvas, 48 x 70in
Gilles (portrait)
Oil pastel, 22 x 30in
The Red Cord
Oil pastel, 22 x 30in
Gilles V
Oil pastel, 22 x 30in
Gilles Pissing
Oil pastel, 22 x 30in
Wahconah Reconstruction
Exhibitions: Wistariahurst Museum;
Fuller Craft Museum; Berkshire Museum;
Boston Center for the Arts
1987-1992
Fish Out of Water
Exhibitions: various galleries and museums
1984-1985
Sockeye Salmon 1984-1985
Exhibitions: galleries, museums,
UMass Arts Festival, Amherst, MA
Fighting It Out
Acrylic on grommeted canvas
115 x 65in
Kelt
73 x 105in
1980 - 1985
Topiary Gardens
Exhibitions: various galleries
1980-1982
One-of-a-Kind Books
Exhibitions: various galleries
and traveling shows
1977-1978
From Familiars
Mixed media
13 x 16in
Seven Deadly Sins & Vanity
Exhibition: Hillyer Hall, Smith College Northampton, MA
Lust
19 x 24in
Greed
19 x 24in