Pierced Screen
Acrylic on cut canvas
93 x 70in
Exhibition: AIR Gallery, NYC
Oil pastel
22 x 30in
1985-1989
Forest Fall
Yosemite 1985
Broadway Windows, NYC
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
Front and verso
Mixed media
168 x 94 x 30in
X-Reflections 1987
Acrylic on cut canvas, 78 x 91in
Oil pastel, 22 x 30in
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.
Wahconah Reconstruction
Exhibitions: Wistariahurst Museum;
Fuller Craft Museum; Berkshire Museum;
Boston Center for the Arts
1987-1992
X-Reflection
The Catch Is Cooked
The Red Cord
Acrylic on canvas,
54 x 52in
Fish Out of Water 1984 -1985
Exhibitions: various galleries and museums
Vernal Falls
Sockeye Salmon 1984-1985
Exhibitions: galleries, museums,
UMass Arts Festival, Amherst, MA
Fighting It Out
Acrylic on grommeted canvas
115 x 65in
1980 - 1985
Topiary Gardens
Exhibitions: various galleries
Yew Arch
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
19 x 24in
1974-1975
Greed
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
Performance Awards + Grants
International Choreographers Residency at Dance Omi, Ghent, NY 2011
The Fund for Creative Communities, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC 2011
Residency, The Performance Project @University Settlement, NYC 2011
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Grant, NYC 2010
Puffin Foundation 2003
National Endowment for the Arts Expeditions Planning Grant 2004
The Greenwall Foundation, project support through Dancing in the Streets 2001
Manhattan Community Arts Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC 1999
New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”) for Inhabited ’98 1999
Independent Artists Challenge Program, The Field, NYC 1996