This will be Salle’s first comprehensive survey in 20 years and will comprise over 40 works from the Brant Collections and loans from international private collections, foundations, and museums.

Salle has evolved, over 40 years, a tightly controlled visual syntax. Just as in poetry, music, or any other syntactically organized language, what matters are the myriad relationships of the parts to the whole. Salle’s work is “orchestral” in nature, and can be seen in the larger context of early and mid-20th century high modernism, specifically in the language (visual or verbal) of poets and painters, artists who sought to capture the rhythm and complexity of contemporary life through the use of synecdoche, narrative compression, juxtaposition, and a general resistance to closure.