Gerald Saladyga
Primary Medium: Paint
Other media: Drawing, Installation
39 Church St. 4A
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 7 years ago painting light as the American Lumnist painters did in the mid-19th 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 fine-tuned this technique, my gaze went from looking outwards to looking back into the landscape. Picking up on various and newly published Landstat, global positioning and other geographical photography, 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 recognition of the encroachment of urban spawl, polution, and natural and human devastion.
Other media: Drawing, Installation
39 Church St. 4A
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 7 years ago painting light as the American Lumnist painters did in the mid-19th 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 fine-tuned this technique, my gaze went from looking outwards to looking back into the landscape. Picking up on various and newly published Landstat, global positioning and other geographical photography, 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 recognition of the encroachment of urban spawl, polution, and natural and human devastion.
Selected Works
|  The Hills Are Alive - 2008 - Mixed - 30"X 22" - $600.00  Tracking Fires on the Planets - 2008 - Mixed - 22"X 30" - $600.00  Renegade Planets - 2008 - Mixed - 22"X 30" - $600.00 |
Artist Bio
Gerald Saladyga was born and raised in Connecticut and currently lives in Hamden with a studio in downtown New Haven. He received various degrees from Sacred Heart University and Southern Connecticut University. However, his major art education took place at the Art Student's League in New York City.
He received two Artist Fellowship Grants, a One Percent for the Arts for the Stamford Courthouse, all from the Connecticut Commission on Art and Tourism, as well as, a Weir Farm Trust Visiting Artist grant.
Saladyga has exhibited extensively in his 30 year career throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York City and most recently at the University of Connecticut at Stamford Art Gallery, the Arnold Bernhard Center for the Arts and Humanities, University of Bridgeport; Connecticut Commission on the Arts Gallery, Hartford, Artspace, New Haven; Art/place, Fairfield; 22 Haviland St. Gallery, Norwalk; Silvermine Guild of Artists Gallery in New Canaan where he also served on its Board of Directors and co-chair of the Gallery Committee.
In the past he has exhibited at the Scott Hanson Gallery, the Robertson Gallery, 22 Wooster St. Gallery in New York City; and Gallery Bershad, Gallery 69A and the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery in Massachusetts.
His work can be found in many private and oublic collections, including the State of Connecticut, Housatonic Museum of Art, the University of Bridgeport, and the Paul Mellon Arts Center at Choate.
He has been reviewed in the New York Times, Stamford Advocate, Art New England, New Haven Register, The Hartford Courant and the Providence Journal. He has appeared on CTV, WTNH and NPR's "The Faith Middleton Show" concerning his art.