Contemporary abstract art - printmaker & painter
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About My Art
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John Salvi, PERSIAN SPRING (detail), 2019, digital transfer, image 11 X 17 in., sheet 15 X 22 in.
PRINTMAKING:
The Art Students League of New York's printmaking studios are where I blend my 'digital' photographs with 'traditional' printmaking techniques.
I create, 'tradigital,' abstract art in luscious, saturated color using ink and paper,
John Salvi, PERSIAN SPRING (detail), 2019, digital transfer, image 11 X 17 in., sheet 15 X 22 in.
PRINTMAKING:
The Art Students League of New York's printmaking studios are where I blend my 'digital' photographs with 'traditional' printmaking techniques.
I create, 'tradigital,' abstract art in luscious, saturated color using ink and paper, as well as, other oil based and aqueous mediums, and receptive substrates.
My modern, repertoire of printmaking techniques include:
- four color, digital polymer lithography
- digital pigment transfer
- monotype and monoprint
- colograph
- sugar lift etching
- mixed media montage and assemblage.
I print on various supports and substrates:
- handmade, fine art, printing papers
- Plexiglass
- polyester
- metal
- Mylar film.
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John Salvi, PORTAL - Turquoise (detail), 2019, digital pigment transfer, image 11 x 17 in., sheet 15 x 22 in, [one of suite of four prints].
"...exploring colors' magnificent effect on: volume, intensity, and tension of evolving forms and shapes."
PRINTMAKING - PROCESS:
'EMPOWERED,' is an example of my process:
- combining, my 'digital' photog
John Salvi, PORTAL - Turquoise (detail), 2019, digital pigment transfer, image 11 x 17 in., sheet 15 x 22 in, [one of suite of four prints].
"...exploring colors' magnificent effect on: volume, intensity, and tension of evolving forms and shapes."
PRINTMAKING - PROCESS:
'EMPOWERED,' is an example of my process:
- combining, my 'digital' photographs with, 'traditional' printmaking techniques; to create one-of-a-kind, 'tradigital,' abstract, fine art prints.
I prefer to make small editions, or a, 'suite of prints;' perhaps six to ten variations, or 'riffs', on my original image.
- I expand, and further illuminate, visual possibilities of my original image by creating a, 'suite, of prints;' rendering one image into an, 'Édition de variétés.'
- Intersting, visual outcomes result by varying: color palette, hue, saturation, contrast and lighting.
- Seeing a suite of prints, as a continuum, makes a correlated, visual statement of my belief that - 'multiple, image repetition- amplifiies impact.
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John Salvi, CHESAPEAKE RAMBLE (detail), 2019, acrylic on canvas, 36 X48 X 1.5 in.
". . .my images may, 'devour my viewer . . .' it’s not a requirement; however, it often happens.' If you’re not bowled-over? I may have missed my mark."- JS
PAINTING:
'CHESAPEAKE RAMBLE,' is a an example of my abstract expressionist painting style:
- I create ima
John Salvi, CHESAPEAKE RAMBLE (detail), 2019, acrylic on canvas, 36 X48 X 1.5 in.
". . .my images may, 'devour my viewer . . .' it’s not a requirement; however, it often happens.' If you’re not bowled-over? I may have missed my mark."- JS
PAINTING:
'CHESAPEAKE RAMBLE,' is a an example of my abstract expressionist painting style:
- I create images of space, time, and dream conjunctions.
My paintings are:
- recorded visions of antiquity, and reimagined myths, captured in the collision of, 'emergence and descent,' with the geometry of: line, coil, and arc.
My painted images are:
- conjured in a moment of imagination,
- painted directly, 'á la prima, on color-toned supports,
- rendered in acrylic on: canvas, board, or Mylar in large, gestural brush strokes.
Color and movement are:
- primary to all of my art, and infuse my work with robustness.