John Salhus
July 21 – September 30, 2016
Artist Statement
John's work depicts a struggle between the manmade and the natural; but it’s a repressed, artificial nature that seems to be overtaking the manmade. A purposefully synthetic interpretation of nature dominates the landscapes in Salhus’s most recent series, as his works offer a study in the duality of the manmade and the natural.
John Salhus, Artist Bio
John Salhus was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1970. He attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design from 1989-92. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture shortly afterwards in 1992. In 1997, Salhus moved to Chicago, where he still lives and works as an independent artist. Salhus's main medium is painting and drawing, but for the past few years, his work has slowly evolved from 2-Dimensional works into mixed media sculpture and installation.