Peter Saul: Homage to Dalí, Nolan Eckman Gallery, NYC

Peter Saul: Homage to Dalí
Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
February 12 – March 13, 2004

Peter Saul’s work could be described as the product of the collision of challenging visual elements with social and political satire. No subject daunts him. With hearty cheer he assaults taste, violates taboo, and defies convention (sometimes all three within one picture).

Peter Saul is literally and figuratively a man of many parts: a critic of society's crueler preoccupations, a diarist of the vulgar and profane, an appropriator, a history painter, and a provocateur. Peter Saul’s cartoon transgressions are his way of shaking us awake from our quotidian stupor. To those who are offended by his images, he might say, “I’m an optimist. My paintings are pure fantasy. The genuinely appalling things happening in the world are real.”

Peter Saul was born in 1934 and currently lives in upstate New York. After attending art school, he went to Europe, where he lived from 1956 to 1964. His first one man exhibition was in 1961 at Allan Frumkin Gallery in Chicago. This is his fourth exhibition at Nolan Eckman.

NOLAN/ECKMAN GALLERY
560 Broadway, New York, NY 10012
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