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- Collection: Tom DiSalvo: Beyond the Nets / Art works
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Challenger
Challenger previously adorned the ceiling of the artist's New York apartment. It has been donated to Christa McAuliffe Middle School in Boynton Beach, Florida.
A Pax on Both Their Houses
This pair of paintings, from the Americana series, depicts the artists sentiments of Cold War Era politics.
Reflections: Reds, Whites, and the Blues
In "Reds, Whites, and the Blues" DiSalvo commemorates his visit to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC. In this painting he fills his own silhouette with names of Vietcong who perished and includes the name of two of his family members whose deaths…
Bamiyan on Broadway
ETERNAL WATERS
A WAY FROM THE CITIES
GENTLE DAYS NIGHTS
WHOSE TOWERS WILL
[…]THERE I […]
[…] SOFT[…]
AT CORPEACE I SING
Bamiyan on Broadway, Twin Towers in the background, statues and buildings.
The statues of Buddhas of Bamiyan were…
A WAY FROM THE CITIES
GENTLE DAYS NIGHTS
WHOSE TOWERS WILL
[…]THERE I […]
[…] SOFT[…]
AT CORPEACE I SING
Bamiyan on Broadway, Twin Towers in the background, statues and buildings.
The statues of Buddhas of Bamiyan were…
Los-Urizen
The Manhattan subway map provides the backdrop for the images of Urizen and Los. At the time this was painted Tom DiSalvo was residing in New York and developing his artistic career. The grid depicts his daily commute, but the mythological figures…
Kandyskin 0 (With Her Stripes We are Healed)
0. STRIPED
Details from the Kandyskin Chronicle Show Catalog (1992)
Two distinct images (Cicciolina, in meditative pose, and the 1934 Kandinsky painting titled "Striped") form a sandwich over and under a text that recalls the celebrated opening…
Details from the Kandyskin Chronicle Show Catalog (1992)
Two distinct images (Cicciolina, in meditative pose, and the 1934 Kandinsky painting titled "Striped") form a sandwich over and under a text that recalls the celebrated opening…
Kandyskin I (D'Hommage a Duchamp)
I. D'HOMMAGE A DUCHAMP
The image is Marcel Duchamp's 1912 painting “Nude descending a staircase No. 2”. Kandyskin's subjective feelings are those of a striptease artist-bride before the cravings of a public-groom.
(Her pin-striped birthday…
The image is Marcel Duchamp's 1912 painting “Nude descending a staircase No. 2”. Kandyskin's subjective feelings are those of a striptease artist-bride before the cravings of a public-groom.
(Her pin-striped birthday…
Kandyskin II (His Clemency)
II. HIS CLEMENCY
El Greco's Cardinal de Guevara and a close up of Cicciolina sandwich in a text dense with quotations. The role of Clement Greenberg as critic-champion and charismatic megaphone of American abstract expressionism is recalled, as is…
El Greco's Cardinal de Guevara and a close up of Cicciolina sandwich in a text dense with quotations. The role of Clement Greenberg as critic-champion and charismatic megaphone of American abstract expressionism is recalled, as is…
Kandyskin VI (Envy)
VI. ENVY
Every- avant-garde movement paints a mustache on the one that came before. Duchamp had bearded Mona Lisa; Leonardo returns the favor on Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The veiled, siren allure of the brides takes flight, dancing, at…
Every- avant-garde movement paints a mustache on the one that came before. Duchamp had bearded Mona Lisa; Leonardo returns the favor on Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The veiled, siren allure of the brides takes flight, dancing, at…
Kandyskin VII (Avarice)
Vll. AVARICE
Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp frames, left to right, Andrew Carnegie, Pope Julius Il, J.P. Morgan, and a member of the Yasuda Marine Insurance Company of Japan. Driven by a craving for absolution, even stronger…
Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp frames, left to right, Andrew Carnegie, Pope Julius Il, J.P. Morgan, and a member of the Yasuda Marine Insurance Company of Japan. Driven by a craving for absolution, even stronger…