Steven Salzman ~ 186,000 Miles Per Second ~ at Frank Pictures Gallery

Written by Max Rapozo Thursday, 24 March 2011 01:27

Santa Monica, CA - Steven Salzman’s exhibition, 186,000 Miles Per Second, his second painting show in Los Angeles, opens at Frank Pictures Gallery in Santa Monica’s prestigious Bergamot Station Art Center on April 15.  Salzman’s painting is an exploration of the process of perception that presents interactions of light, color and space in clear, unified configurations of stripes and stars.  The iridescent interference acrylic paints that he uses have an intrinsic complexity in their ability to change color as a result of external lighting and viewer movement allowing for multiple views occupying the same space. 

In other words, as the viewer moves around the painting, the colors and textures within it change in dramatic and compelling ways.  Through their extreme translucence, the paint allows for multiple planes of color-shifting pigment to intertwine within an also shifting space, so that the 2-dimensional design and the literal, 3-dimensional layering alternate and combine, or, become other, less definable spaces.  The critical contribution of external light and viewer position begs the question of exactly what is inside and what is outside the painting. 

Salzman studied at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and at Bard College.  He has had numerous gallery and museum shows both nationally and internationally. 

Visit Frank Pictures Gallery at : www.FrankPicturesGallery.com Steven Salzman on exhibit until 24 May, 2007.

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