From One Dream to Another

Hand-finished series of 20 + 2 APs + 1 PP, 2023Spray, oil, pastel, mixed media collage, and archival pigment on Hahnemuhle museum etching paper Signed and numbered by the artist on front 22.00 x 18.00 in55.88 x 45.72 cm ABOUT THE WORK: Andrew Salgado creates explosively colorful portraits that reflect the multi-faceted nature of human forms in the 21st century. What’s more contemporary than feeling pulled in a million directions at once? Dismantled identity donned as reality — perhaps our curated masks are not as fixed as we’d like to believe. Neither fully dreaming or truly awake, Salgado’s subjects are drenched in textured emotion, exploring and ricocheting within frame, akin to the individual impulse to transform our limited dispositions. For Salgado, confines of composition are ripe for revision. Our new collaboration with the artist, a unique series of 20 collaged prints created in the artist’s studio, features a figure undergoing continual metamorphosis. In Salgado’s own words,