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Tony Saladino

Artist Bio

Saladino's work is in the collections of the National Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, University of Wisconsin - Parkside, University of Dallas, Wichita Falls Museum, Museum of International Art, Bahia, Brazil, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri. He is listed in Who's Who in American Art, and Who's Who in the South and Southwest.

I enjoy the risk taking aspect of doing varied themes, shifting from medium to medium. While many of my pieces are personal I am concerned that the viewer sees images that are universal enough to compel him or her to keep looking.

An artist communicates an idea, or feeling, or tries to make connections. I hope each piece possesses a spatial energy that compels a viewer to look, and that the images are universal enough to be compelling.

View more information about Tony and his process at http://www.saladinostudio.com/

Artist Statement

I think successful art is made by working in a way that is natural for the artist - one that reflects his or her preoccupations, and interests. Working within our time we are challenged to think about all that is around us. We react to outside stimuli, or to our own thoughts by creating images that we hope will affect others.

I enjoy the risk taking aspect of shifting from theme to theme, and the energy I get from going from medium to medium. I am beginning to accept that what I do today, in the present, is all I can do. That is, there comes a time that one must accept his or hers own idiosyncrasies, and blemishes as valid. If we wait until we are perfect no art will get done. This provides latitude for experimentation, because when the possibility for failure is allowed, and accepted, then experimentation, and confidence, follow. Art is about more than beauty. An artist communicates an idea, or feeling, or tries to make connections. I want each piece to possess a spatial energy that compels a viewer to look. I want the images to be universal enough to be compelling. The viewer is either repulsed, pleased, made interested, or stimulated in such a way that they are made to consider other ideas that are not so easily conveyed by printed media.

When I get off track, I am reminded by Tolstoi's words about the objective of art: "Art is human activity consisting of this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them."

Artist Exhibitions

Selected Exhibitions

• 2011 The Abstract Monotypes, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky. Solo Exhibition
• 2010 Group Show, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas
  Abstracted Landscapes by Tony Saladino, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston Island, Texas. Solo Exhibition
• 2009 New Paintings, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky. Solo Exhibition
  Flora Arte + Fine Art- An Installation, Gallery Shoal Creek in Bloom, Austin, Texas
• 2008 Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas. Solo Exhibition
  A Centennial Celebration of Art in Lubbock, The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, Texas
• 2007 Eleven-A Medley of the Familiar, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas
  Tony Saladino/Terrain-An Abstracted View of the Landscape, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas. Solo Exhibition
• 2006 Here and There, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky. Solo Exhibition
  The Still Life- Two Points of View, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas
  Taylor's Contemporenea, Hot Springs, Arkansas
• 2005 Tony Saladino- New Works, Fairmont Gallery, Dallas, Texas. Solo Exhibition
• 2004 Recent Paintings, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky. Solo Exhibition
  Contrasting Views, Gallery at Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas
  Preservation is the Art of the City, Fort Worth, Texas. Feature Artist
  Milan Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas. Bank of America Award in Memory of Bror Utter
  Abstract Expressionists, Fairmont Gallery, Dallas, Texas
• 2003 Preservation is the Art of the City, Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas. Brands Realtors, Inc Award
• 1999 B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, Solo Exhibitions
• 2002 Running Ridge Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  Water Street Gallery, Saugatuck, Michigan
  Arte Sagrado- A Reflective of Christian Perspectives in Art- Concordia University, Austin, Texas
  Landscapes- Fine Art Exhibition and Auction, Dallas Museum of Art
  Twenty-Second Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition
  New Traditions: Contemporary Mezzotints, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
• 1995 The Landscape: Judy Pelt, Tony Saladino, Mary Ann Fittipaldi, Evelyn Siegel Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas

Selected Collections

• 2011 Schad & Schad, PLLC, Jeffersonville, Indiana
• 2010 GXS, Inc., Maryland
  The James Rebman & Edgar Barkley Trust, Austin, Texas
• 2009 River Road Asset Management, Louisville, Kentucky
• 2008 Stites and Harbison PLLC, Louisville, Kentucky
• 2007 Caesars' Casinos, Indiana
  Community Health Services, Franklin, Tennessee
• 2005 Bank of Laredo
  Bacardi
  Circle Theatre, Fort Worth, Texas
  Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
  Brown-Forman Corporation, Louisville, Kentucky
• 2004 Winstead, Sechrest & Minick P. C.
  Fort Worth Library Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas
  Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Austin, Texas
• 2003 Greenbaum, Doll & McDonald, PLLC, Louisville, Kentucky
• 2000 Guilfoil Interiors, Lebanon, Kentucky
• 1998 Paul Semonin Realtors, Louisville, Kentucky
• 1994 Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas
• 1991 National Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, North Viet Nam
• 1990 Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia
  The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts
  University of Wisconsin, Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin
• 1989 Nassau County Community College, Garden City, New York
• 1988 McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana
  University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
• 1987 City of Milford, Milford, Connecticut
  Amway Corporation, Ada, Michigan
  University of Wisconsin, Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin
• 1986 Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Missouri
  Hunterdon Art Center, Hunterdon, New Jersey
  Museum of International Art, Bahia, Brazil

Selected Reviews/Articles/Books

• 2010 Kentucky Homes and Gardens, May/June, illustration
• 2007 Tony Saladino/Terrain-An Abstracted View of the Landscape, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas. Catalog
  Downtown Living, Fort Worth, Texas. Summer
  Living with Panache, Fort Worth, Texas. August
  Southwest Art Magazine, July
• 2004 Austin American Statesman, Austin, Texas. December
  Crosswinds Weekly, Albuquerque, New Mexico. July/August
• 2000 La Semana, Fort Worth, Texas. June
  Gallery Guide- Chicago/Midwest, Art Now. Cover and page MW7
• 1999 Carolina Arts, "How a Mezzotint Print is Made". August
  Fort Worth Star Telegram, Editorial by Don Erler. June
• 1998 The Best of Sketching and Drawing, Rockport Publishers
  Overtures, a publication of the Foundations of the Arts, Jonesboro, Arkansas. October
• 1997 Kenosha News, Kenosha, Wisconsin. January 31
• 1996 Fort Worth Star Telegram. June 30
• 1995 Who's Who in the South and Southwest
  Getting the Word Out- An Art Calendar Guide
• 1994 Enrich Your Paintings with Texture by David Band, North Light Books. Summer
• 1992 The Art Calendar. February
  North Dakota Quarterly. Fall
• 1989-90 Who's Who in American Art, New York, New York
• 1989 New York Times. December
  D&D Disegnare E Dipingege, Milan, Italy. June
  The Artist's Magazine. March
  City: Wichita Falls Magazine. November
• 1987 American Artist Magazine. June
  Reporter Dispatch, White Plains, New York

Education

• BS, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, Louisiana