Gerald Saladyga
Other media: Installation, Printmaking
39 Church St 4A
39 Church St 4A
New Haven, CT 06510
Phone: 203 773-3737
Neighborhood : New Haven: Downtown
Email: saladyga (at) sbcglobal (dot) net
Artist Statement
I consider myself a landscape painter, but not in the traditional sense. For me landscape means everything about the cosmos--within, on and outside the planet on which we live.
I began this particular artistic venture about seven years ago painting light as the American Luminist painters did in the mid-nineteenth century, but within a contemporary, all-over, minimalist framework--paintings that are reminiscent of the beauty and joy of first sight and interpretation.
As I developed and fine-tuned this technique, my gaze went from looking outwards to looking back and within the landscape. Picking up on various and newly published Landstat, global positioning and other geographical photographs, I imagined landscapes as viewed from beyond the planet looking back on to it, and from within it looking out.
As a painter, I believe, one can no longer rely on 19th century formulas for painting landscapes that lack the encroachment of sprawl, pollution,and natural and human devastation.
Selected Works
|  Polar Activity - 2010 - Latex Paint/Canvas - 46"X 36"  Pentacost - 2009 - Latex paint/Canvas - 48"X 30"  Star of Bethlehem - 2009 - Latex paint/Canvas - 34"X 30'  What's Going On? - 2009 - Latex paint/Canvas - 46"X 46"  Climbing Jacob's Ladder - 2008 - Latex Paint/Canvas - 42"X 36"  Apocalypse - 2008 - Latex Paint/Canvas - 40"X 30"  Surveillance #3 - 2009 - Latex Paint/Paper - 42"X 30"  Moon Rise - 2010 - Latex Paint/Paper - 30"X 22"  Tracking the Last White Buffalo - 2010 - Latex Paint/Paper - 30"X 22"  Apocalypse #2 - 2009 - Latex Paint/Paper - 22"X 30"  The Last Autumn - 2006 - Latex Paint/Paper - 42"X 30"  Black Moon - 2006 - Latex Paint/Paper - 42"X 30"  Blood Count - 2006 - Latex Paint/Paper - 42"X 30"  Arctic Intervention - 2006 - Latex Paint/Paper - 42"X 30"  Heat - 2010 - Mixed media on paper - 22"X 30"  Renegade Planet - 2010 - Mixed media on paper - 30"X 22"  Ring of Fire - 2010 - Mixed media on paper - 30"X 22"  Landscape after the Conquest - 2010 - Mixed media on paper - 30"X 22" |
Artist Bio
Gerald Saladyga is a Connecticut native and currently lives in Hamden, with a studio in downtown New Haven. He received various degrees from Sacred Heart University, southern Connecticut State University. However, his major art education took place at the Art Student's League in New York City.
In recent years, he has received two grants from the Connecticut Commission on Art and Tourism, the state's One Percent for the Arts and Weir Farm Trust Visiting Artists Program.
Saladyga has exhibited extensively in his 35 year career throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York City and most recently at he Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University; Artspace, and Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT. ; Silvermine Guild Art Gallery, New Canaan, Ct.; Arnold Bernhard Center for the Arts and Humanities, Univerisity of Bridgeport, Ct.; Connecticut Commission on the Arts Gallery, Hartford, Ct. and the 22 Haviland St GAllery in Norwalk, Ct.
He has served on the boards of Silvermine Guild of Art Center where he was co-chair of the Guild and on the board of Artspace, New Haven.
His work can be found in many public and private collections including the State of Connecticut, Housatonic Museum of Art, University of Bridgeport, the Paul Mellon Arts Center at Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Ct., and Aksia, NYC.