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In TWO DAYS!! This SATURDAY!! Come be Kitschy with us!! Nosh, drink and hang out with a bunch of cool artists!! #Repost @jodi_bonassi with @get_repost ・・・ “Kitsch-In-Sync” Art and It’s Opposite , #artreception JANUARY 26, 6-9PM #curator #bradfordjsalamon at #coastlineartgallery at #coastlinecommunitycollege #groupexhibition #lacontemporaryart #arttoday #artcollectors #artlovers #youngartcollectorscircle #youngartcollectors #newportbeach #artwriters https://www.instagram.com/p/BtC6cE5Fagn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ae3vx4cn0d9j

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http://tribelamagazine.com/pink-pop-up-art-show-chat-co-curator-artist-william-wray/ TribeLA Magazine • Los Angeles “There’s a certain kind of classism in the art world.” Wray explains. “A lot of very contemporary art might not be so open to art that is narrative or illustrative. In the “Pink Manifesto” defining the philosophy of this show, the question about the controversy of different concepts of art is addressed clearly. #Allartallthetime #Arttoday #Bradfordjsalamon #Pinkpopupshow #Tribelamagazine #William_Wray

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Breaking Art News 11.29.17 The PINK Pop-Up Art Show: A chat with co-curator/artist William Wray – Pink! It's not just for girls anymore

William Wray portrait by Bradford J. Salamon The Pink Show at Castelli Art Space, November 30 – December 3, 2017 5428 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles For show information contact carlos@castelliartspace.com

By Janice Bremec Blum

The color pink as well as its varieties that range from bubble gum to flamingo to cherry blossom, is most often associated with little girls and their delicate femininity. But when you give the color to a group of creative, visual artists and ask what pink represents to them, you enter into the color behind the color. Meet William Wray, artist and co-curator of the Pink Pop-Up show happening at the Castelli Art Space in Culver City, California.

I sat down with Wray as he and a team of people were preparing the gallery for their Pink show. Sitting on an outside patio next to a wall of sparkly, pink curtains, I simply asked, “Why pink?”

“It’s a common thing in the gallery world to have a theme. I detest themes.” Wray gives a chuckle and a smirk. “Generally, they’re a choice to get commercial attention, hoping for salability.” Wray tells me. “But I wanted to have a theme that didn’t tie the hands of the artist in any way.”

From that declaration, the only instruction the artists were given by Wray and his co-curator Carlos Iglesias, was to present a piece that has pink in there somewhere. Whether that meant a painting of the vocal artist Pink or the look of a healthy glow, the choice was up to the artist. As I walked through the gallery still in the process of getting assembled for the show, there was indeed a plethora of pink in all its glory. “Pink,” Wray explains, “is going away from being just a ‘girl’ color and being an everybody color.”

At the Pink Show, there is only one agenda on the table which, I’m told, has nothing to do with the title. It’s about how all art can live together in harmony. “There’s a certain kind of classism in the art world.” Wray explains. “A lot of very contemporary art might not be so open to art that is narrative or illustrative.

Oftentimes, there’s a sense that that world may be left out of a certain kind of art gallery or a show. And vice versa. There could be a more conservative gallery that may embrace the noble savage type of stuff which is the opposite extreme. I’m looking to be in the middle.”

In the “Pink Manifesto” defining the philosophy of this show, the question about the controversy of different concepts of art is addressed clearly.

“Can very contemporary art live in the same room with cartoon surrealism and some variation of narrative traditional art without the room bursting into flame?” Looking at the various “pink” work that was still being hung on the walls, I can assure you that the local fire department need not be on speed dial. From what I’ve seen so far, the work is magnificent. Classic. Whimsical. Surprising. Unique.

And all pink.

The wide realm of artistic expression by some of today’s leading artists rest upon the unifying comfort of that color.

“Curating an art show with such varying artists,” says Wray, “is somewhat like trying to seat a family at a dinner.”

Whereas, according to the manifesto, this show, “gives many disparate artists a chance to eat together at the same table,” placing the art around the gallery takes a meticulous eye making sure that everything is complimentary and hostility is left at the curb. It’s about finding the balance. “We look forward to the tension of the merry go round of possibilities,” states Wray.

Before leaving, Wray couldn’t impress upon me enough the immense gratitude that he has for all of the contributing artists. There is diversity not just in the artistic expression of the color pink, but also within the artists themselves. Collectively, Wray feels that this collaboration encompasses narrative + contemporary + skill + technique. A winning combination for a pink-tastic show!

Janice Bremec Blum, Editor in Chief janice@tribelamagazine.com

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If you're in Newport Beach, stop by and see "Kitsch in Sync: Art and it's Opposite" curated by @bradfordjsalamon A wonderful group show. #popartlegacy #figurativeart #kitsch (at Coastline Community College Art Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtIGMMaFHpO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10xvya613kagk

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I am excited to have this painting included in an upcoming show on Jan 19th. Please stop by during the reception. Lots of really cool artists in the show. • "Paintings from the Interior" Reception Sat Jan. 19, 6-9pm at UCR ARTS! Located: 3824 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501 • The show is curated by Andi Campognone, the exhibition is a survey exhibition of painting in and about the inland region of southern California. With a specific geographic boundary east of Kellogg Hill in Los Angeles county to the low and high deserts of San Bernardino and Riverside counties, this exhibit focuses on both the literal landscape and the conceptual imagery of place. • #art #painting #ucrarts #work #ucrartsdowntown #culvercenterofthearts #sweeneyartgallery #paintingsfromtheinterior • @acprojects @alex.couwenberg @bemillerstudio @jorin_bossen @bradfordjsalamon @markdeanveca @truemanchris @jeffsotoart @sharonsuhovyartist @thorpart @jbower23 @garywinstonbrewer @kimberlybrooksartist @terrydchacon @division9gallery @joshuadildine @salomonhuerta @brianjohnsonstudio @stevielovestudio @alinelillie @ruth_pastine @andreapatrie @arrowsmithdawn @dianebest13 @chatosezwhat99 @hollis.cooper @stevenhampton6 (at UCR ARTSblock) https://www.instagram.com/brianjohnsonstudio/p/BsUadUuFWPT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pbd5h4wian3s

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Part 2 from the opening of @poetsartists group show curated by @johnalbertseed @arcadiacontemporary last Saturday. Featured artists: @erinandersonstudio @thebobartlett @aleah_chapin @carl_dobsky @michellelynndoll @anneharrisart @fscotthess @jcjohnpaint @davidkassan @danielmaidman @susannah_martin Dan McCleary @kimberly.merrill @rickymujicaartist @serena_muse @leepricestudio @irvinrodriguez @bradfordjsalamon @vicselbach @betty_shelton_ @cynthiasitton @jon.swihart.art @michael_vanzeyl @nickwardwho @zokosky (at Arcadia Contemporary)

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A small #detail shot of#my painting in Kitsch-In-Sync , Art and It’s Opposite #seemywork and more #artreception #hangout #bethere #artlovers on JAN 26 for a stellar line up of respected artists! #curator #bradfordjsalamon #coastlinecommunitycollegeartgallery #coastlinecommunitycollege (at Coastline Community College Art Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsgWzLdlfaH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=adq9at7wmhq0

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#Repost @bradfordjsalamon with @get_repost ・・・ new one of my dear friend Jodi Bonassi. She is a fabulous artist and I'm grateful to know her . @jodi_bonassi so jazzed to be painted by my friend incredible artist #bradfordjsalamon !! Get a load of those incredible #brushstrokes (at Monrovia, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsUBLsJFBzc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bdlhuci3xsgz

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“Kitsch-In-Sync” Art and It’s Opposite , #artreception JANUARY 26, 6-9PM #curator #bradfordjsalamon at #coastlineartgallery at #coastlinecommunitycollege Jazzed to be in with these #coolartists ! #groupexhibition #lacontemporaryart #arttoday #artcollectors #artlovers #youngartcollectorscircle #youngartcollectors (at Coastline Community College Art Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrreKJMlt7U/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7fmo22cm5z5q

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A day of sketching in our own #sketchbooks on our #ownpath #beyourself #artprocess #drawing #observationaldrawing #bradfordjsalamon #jodibonassi #laart (at Monrovia, California)

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Still painting. There were a lot of monsters today. One got tangled in the paint roller. #bradfordjsalamon #salvatoremateo #artprocess #instudio #monsters #exerciseyourdemons #laartist #contemporaryart #expressionism #surreal #paintroller #arttoday #artlovers #bizarre (at Los Angeles, California)

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ART TODAY 10.21.17: Co-curator of The Pink 'pop-up' Art Show, William Wray by Bradford J. Salamon, a painter of fellow artists TribeLA Magazine • Los Angeles ##Castelliartspace #Arttoday #Bradfordjsalamon #Carlosiglesias #William_Wray

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ART TODAY 10.21.17: Co-curator of The Pink 'pop-up' Art Show, William Wray by Bradford J. Salamon, a painter of fellow artists

William Wray (20×26) by Bradford J. Salamon

Bradford J. Salamon is an American portrait painter whose subjects are often fellow artists. He imbues ordinary objects of the past with an iconic art status beyond their cultural history.  Bradford’s passion about the California art scene includes curating art shows and documenting fellow artists on film.

William Wray has lived in California most of his life and studied painting at the Art Students League in New York. Making his living as a cartoonist who specialized in painted subjects, he spent many years coalescing a eclectic array of art styles, ultimately finding his voice in a contemporized reflection of traditional California regional painting that focus on humble subject matter rarely considered as fine art. Wray blends traditional skill sets of realism and the sheer energy of abstract expressionism in an ongoing evolution to find the balance between two seemingly unrelated styles. Wray has challenged himself to create a brand of realistic expressionism he hopes to use a bridge into the customarily circumspect contemporary art world. He carries memberships with Oil Painters of America, LAPAPA, and California Art Club.

Carlos Iglesias became a partner at Castelli Art Space with Fred Goldstein via art collector and advocate Gordon W. Bailey. Since meeting Gordon and being a protégé to him, Carlos has forged ahead in the world of art to make connections to help artists that he believes in, so they may gain a larger voice that resonates in contrast to the darkness that shrouds our society today. Currently Iglesias is working with the Qatar Foundation, Fountainhead Residency in Miami, Acacia Gallery in Cuba and serves as Ambassador to the Enter Art Foundation based in Berlin to introduce artists to American eyes.

The Pink show is an outrageously simple concept: we are stripping the meat off the usual complex curatorial group-show carcass and playing with a cute little chew-toy combo instead. This grouping of wildly diverse artists has been gathered at great effort and expense just to reflect upon one happy color (in this case, Pink), each in his or her own way. It may be just a drop of the color Pink in the nose of a troubled bunny rabbit or a whole complex Lego world gone leather gay disco. We are asking the controversial question: can very contemporary art live in the same room with cartoon surrealism and some variation on narrative traditional art without the room bursting into flame?

All “Pink Show” logo designs by William Wray

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Gave Bradford a friend, Salvatore. Kent is greeted by an evil gnome family. Time to get sleep. #nightowl #artprocess #bradfordjsalamon #salvatorematteo #kenttwitchell #markmarcus #paintingprocess #artprocess #laart #narrative #expressionist gallery #workprocess #sketch #freehanddrawing #laartist #metroseries #creatures #gnomes (at Los Angeles, California)

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ART TODAY 10.17.17 "The Pink Show" presents - Bradford J. Salamon (read critique by art critic Roberta Carasso, Ph.D) TribeLA Magazine • Los Angeles ##Castelliartspace #Arttoday #Bradfordjsalamon #The_Pink_Show

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ART TODAY 10.17.17 "The Pink Show" presents - Bradford J. Salamon (read critique by art critic Roberta Carasso, Ph.D)

The Pink Show at Castelli Art Space • November 30 – December 3, 2017 5428 W. Washington Blvd. • Los Angeles, CA. 90016 For show information contact info@hofberg-iglesias.com

by Art Critic, Roberta Carasso, Ph.D – (reprinted by permission)

Bradford J. Salamon

Painting from a live sitter, a photograph, a forgotten artifact, or filming his artistic process while painting portraits of exceptional artists, are all energizing sources for Bradford J. Salamon. Tapping into a rich palette of information, the artist transforms the essence of direct painting through layers of skill, memories, emotions, and soulful passions. His art overflows with vibrant possibilities; a 21st century vision rendered through multiple and diverse processes, media, and tools.

Salamon is known for his figurative paintings and drawings of individuals and groups who engage in profound human scenarios. Currently, he expands his repertoire to include intimate portraits of vintage objects of yesteryear, as well as films about artists and the nature of creativity. Knowing that content cannot be conveyed in just one work of art, or expressed in only one medium, Salamon has found his personal solution. While portraiture is one of the oldest subjects, Salamon brings a newer dimension to the tried and true art. He renders in-depth views of each sitter, a biographical approach, a dialogue as he captures the many aspects of the sitter through multi-media in various sessions.

The artist, who never lacks for commissions, prefers to choose a sitter, rather than have someone ask him “to do” a portrait. Those he decides to portray in depth are people he highly admires – creative artists, writers, and musicians. In this approach, the artist builds a stockpile of reflections, capturing ever-evolving nuances of character, personality, drama, and story. He gets into the psyche of the sitter, painting a more accurate reality of each person he portrays.

Salamon combines traditional techniques with documentation to celebrate a person’s life. His biographical approach results in a rich bounty of art that deepens the relationship between sitter and artist. Once the many works of art concerning one person are assembled, the soul of the sitter and the soul of the artist can more truthfully emerge.

Among his subjects is a portrait of Eric Johnson, the contemporary sculptor who is a master at capturing scientific concepts in abstract sculptural form. In his work Johnson uses super bright colors with space-age surfaces that are clean and smooth. Salamon, however, paints the sculptor in deep browns and grays as if he portrays (portrays not portrayed) him in Rembrandt’s time. In this way, Salamon shows that an artist of the caliber of Johnson creates timeless art that is connected to all art history, not just to our era of slick modernity.

With pencil, charcoal, paint, or camera, Salamon meets the sitter as if for the first time, finding fresh qualities, which may not have been revealed in previous sessions. Working with several portraits over extended and various lengths of time, Salamon states that painting many intimate renderings of the same person: “Deepens my relationships with other human beings that no other act would accomplish. The process of painting is an interaction which cannot be done from memory. Human beings are three-dimensional. In order to portray the real person, the artist must interact. Spending hours and hours cannot help but deepen the connection and affect the art. This close kinship brings out the intimate details of the sitter and his or her creative nature; and the artist’s response to it.”

The stereotype of the artist and sitter is that the artist paints while the sitter remains immobile. However, Salamon is interested in portraying a flesh and blood human, an energetic individual, a multidimensional a live person rendered through multiple media. Consequently, he allows the viewer to move and talk, ensuring that the art never becomes stale. As he blocks in color, bone structure, light and dark and overall contour, the person dialogues with him, turning, moving, and animating a range of gestures. As Salamon applies washes of color, he builds up planes where corners of planes shift or come together, and body structures alter.

Add to this that Salamon is aware of the three-dimensionality of color, light and temperature, the heat and cool that color emits. Salamon does not stop in the process. He makes alterations, color adjustments, determine how clothing relates to each other, or how the background dialogues with the foreground. Continuously talking, moving a brush rapidly, mixing paint, and checking the person in front of him, he monitors all phases of the emerging painting.

Using his iPhone while working is an added bonus; when there is a stop in the action, he not only takes a picture of his painting, but soon develops a collection of stages in the painting’s progress. For Salamon, reducing the painting to a smaller image, along with different views helps him be aware of the many facets of the process. Looking at an image he may have created minutes before allows him to transcend time, to be in more than one time zone as he builds the image, like an architect aware of all phases and dimensions of a building being erected.

Salamon blocks out specific details and makes determinations to check edges, hard edges, soft edges, or contrasts, such as in the mouth and corners of the mouth. Color of hair, skin, eyes, merge along with the soft edges as bodily planes meet, as he continuously works outward in, going from large to smaller areas and then to subtle details. At times, he works from a static image such as a photograph. To overcome the possibility of becoming dry, he returns to his life drawings for reference. He does not draw while he paints, but looks at the many sketches such as those on his iPhone to review their essence more quickly.

Asked why he now is drawn to vintage objects such as a discarded oil can, an outdated typewriter, or unknown gadgetry, he responds: “I will paint people forever, as they are always important to me. But my fascination with inanimate objects and the stories they tell bring me back to a different time when it makes me move into the mindset of a designer or inventor who thought with 1920 references. Old glass bottles, iconography, out-of-date sewing machines, their shapes and how they work stimulate me to see the world with fresh perceptions.” Salamon’s choice of vintage is the well-designed and well-made detritus that was once revered.  For him, these objects have an edge that connects the past with the present and expands the artist’s range of perceiving the world around him. For Salamon this is what the art process is all about.

Knowing his voracious appetite for finding ways to understand people, ideas, and the essence of art, it is natural that Salamon also has successfully taken up filmmaking. He works with significant artists and art critics to produce 15 minute films that give an audience an intimate look at the nature of an artist and the art produced. At the moment, Salamon has created about 10 short films of Los Angeles artists under the theme of “Looking for Genius.” These include Alex Schaefer, Matt Gleason, Don Bachardy and others. Salamon’s dream is for each artist to recommend another artist as he forges links that connect artist to artist in places beyond the known, finding a hidden genius, who creates really great works of art.

Over the years, Salamon has had many exhibitions and his work is sought by fine collectors. His art is largely shown in California and New York.”

For more information about Bradford, visit his website at http://bradfordjsalamon.com

PINK announcement by William Wray

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Adding another artist friend, #bradfordjsalamon because I admire his work. I guess we are meeting him at the metro. #metro #friends #artistfriends #sketching #drawing #painting #artprocess #losangelesart #dtla #laartists #contemporaryart #studio (at Los Angeles, California)

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Bradford J. Salamon, a master painter. His 20 year survey at California Heritage Museum was wonderful. Rich brush strokes like butter next to finely painted surfaces. Like life. #bradfordjsalamon #caheritagemuseum #20yearsurvey #santamonica #laartist (at California Heritage Museum)

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Metro day. Went with my friend Betty to see "The Art Of Getting There" because I adore Bradford J. Salamon's paintings and J. Michael Walker's illustration. A Group show about trains at the Pasadena Museum Of History. #metroday #pasadenamuseumofhistory #theartofgettingthere #bradfordjsalamon #jmichaelwalker (at Pasadena Museum of History)