PARTIES - Photography Series

Archetypes, stereotypes, and Renaissance evocations blend playfully into bright, bold, colorful images. Greg Salvatori tableaux are full of irony, sexiness and joyful celebration of the moment. Whether a tea party, shipwreck, or séance, each scene captures a powerfully dynamic stillness, prompting a sense of wonder and curiosity. Drawing on Salvatori’s signature pink palette, these works are filled with color and details that provoke our imagination and joy.

The works recall not only the tradition of still life paintings in Western art, but also—in their richness of color and texture, and their use of contemporary elements—remind us of a technicolor film still, where action is frozen for a split second, suspended in time, allowing our imagination to wander. Each scene prompts us to conjure a story that brought these people together, and to consider the lives behind the gestures and movements. In their large format, each work in the series asks us to consider our own place in the party, getting lost in the scene with our own imagination.