OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2022
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2022
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2022
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18" , 2021
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18" , 2021
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2021
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2022
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2021
"I prefer the reaction of ordinary people [over] the academic because those reactions are honest. The reaction is not specific, but it must take a moment. [It] taps into the common experience that is being pointed to in the work." JS
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2022
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2021
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18”, 2022
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18”, 2022
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18”, 2022
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2022
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2022
Every face shows a story, even if unwittingly or unknowingly. Joanna Salska is interested in how the face portrays trauma or “cracks”, as evidence of the disjuncture between an individual psychology and social conventions. She manifests cracks visually as moments of repetition and fragmentation in familiar objects such as doll’s heads, masks and models.
Salska’s paints on square formats. These surfaces are both landscape and portrait, accounting for the discrete and vast locations of the human subject. Salska views her work as a kind of “psychological excavation project”, focused on finding the unmediated self within the compromised self of social expectation.
48 X 48", OIL, 2010
Oil, 48” X 48”, 2010
Oil, 48” X 48”, 2011
Oil, 48” X 48”, 2011
Oil, 48” X 48”, 2012
Oil, 48” X 48”, 2009
Oil, 48” X 48”, 2011
Oil, 48” X 48”, 2010
Salska's production is intuitive above all else. She is driven toward a subject and obsessively studies the matter in media. She oscillates between forms and union of those forms in a symbiosis of geometry and gesture.
OIL ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2022
OIL ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2022
OIL ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2021
OIL ON PAPER, 12 X 18”, 2022
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2022
OIL ON PAPER, 12 X 18”, 2022
OIL ON PAPER, 12 x 18”, 2019
OIL ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2021
MIXED MEDIA, 12” X 18”, 2018
OIL ON PAPER,12 X 18", 2018
MIXED MEDIA, 9” X 12”, 2018
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2019
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18”, 2020
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2020
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER,12 X 18" , 2018
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER,12 X 18", 2018
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER , 12 x 18", 2018
MIXED MEDIA, 9” X 12”, 2018
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 x 18", 2018
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18”, 2018
MIXED MEDIA, 9” X 12”, 2018
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 x 18", 2018
OIL & COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18”, 2020
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18”, 2018
Salska's portraits attempt to capture the true emotive experience of her subjects – some essential quality or characteristic that is not readily visible to the average encounter. Using photographic imagery as source material, the timely precision of the snapshot often illuminates these moments of the essential nature of a subject. Milliseconds caught in time have exposed parts of people that could never be known in real time. Of course, these moments do occur in real time – a shape, a light, a color, an expression sparks. It is these moments of exposure that activate Salska to painting. This process is intuitive, collaborative, and energetic.
OIL, 48 X 48”, 2017
OIL, 48 X48", 2017
OIL ON PAPER, 6 X 6”, 2-15
OIL, 48X48", 2014
OIL, 48X48", 2014
OIL, 48 X 48", 2017
OIL, 48” X 48”, 2012
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 12”, 2015
PHOTOGRAPHY, 4” x 5”, 2016
PHOTOGRAPHY, 4” x 5”, 2016
PHOTOGRAPHY, 4” x 5”, 2016
PHOTOGRAPHY, 5” x 4”, 2016
PHOTOGRAPHY, 8” X 6”, 2016
PHOTOGRAPHY, 6” X 8”, 2015
PHOTOGRAPHY, 8” X 6”, 2016
Salska's work is primarily figurative with an emphasis on emotive gesture and color. Salska believes that gesture is the ultimate expression of emotion; pulling with it the extension of the subconscious.
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18”, 2021
MIXED MEDIA, 12” X 18”, 2018
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2021
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18”, 2021
MIXED MEDIA, 9” X 12”, 2018
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18", 2021
OIL, 48” X 48”, 2013
OIL AND COLLAGE ON PAPER, 12 X 18" , 2021
