The Richard Sala Oddities and Curios Exhibition

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Gallery View

Here we see two additional works from the same period, hanging in a gallery in Berkeley, part of a show titled "Eccentric Imagery", which traveled to France.

To give a sense of scale, the nearby statue of a man is about five feet high.

Long-time Sala aficionados will spot the same composition in one of the works (titled "The Big Question") that would appear a short time later as the cover of Sala's book Hypnotic Tales. Not to mention an appearance of another continuing Sala obsession: the girl detective.

Above -- The Big Question being packaged up for the show.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

THREE

Another Shock

For Sale: $600.

Hate Mail

For Sale: $600.

Senselessly Cruel

For Sale: $600.

TWO

Moved By Spirits

For Sale: $600.

Under Observation

For Sale: $600.

The Thin Line

For Sale: $600.

ONE

All Through The Night

(Print)

In a Strange Place

SOLD

The Animal Dance

For Sale: $500.

The Ringer

For Sale: $500.

About the work

Created in the 1980s and recently re-discovered in storage, groups "One", "Two" and "Three" are all 22" x 30" Watercolor and Ink on Strathmore Aquarius Watercolor Paper. This early body of work (more of which may be added later) are in the style of Sala's NIGHT DRIVE (1984) and INVISIBLE HANDS (1989) which was shown on MTV. The Strathmore Aquarius paper made back then was different from the kind available today. It was a soft, almost cloth-like paper, and because of this, some of the drawings have areas of minor damage along the edges and a few are missing the tips of their corners. This, however, only adds to their charm as artwork created in some faraway time, discovered after decades hidden in a secret room...