Layering with David Salle

David Salle draws on pornography, kitsch, and even other art in his work, overlaying these images in deliberately different styles to call attention to his various reference points. When I was enrolled at SVA in the early 1980s, Salle was a sought-after studio painting instructor and I could not get a spot in his class. "Painting" had been declared dead by the art world, but Salle was continuing to make it important by drawing over his paintings with new indices of meaning.