SALLY WEBSTER ART
ABOUT SALLY WEBSTER
Visual Artist
Sally Websters paintings and drawings use metaphoric imagery and ambiguous symbolism that could be described as both meditative and surrealistic. There often exists some form of conflict between abstract and realism. Her paintings release from the mind notions of the real and suggest by design and intense colors another universe for the viewer to reflect upon. Her intimately scaled work is labor intensive and consists of many layers of meticulously applied oil paint, creating paintings that are intense and intimate.
Sally studied sculpture and performance art at the San Francisco Art Institute. In the late 70s and early 80s she was part of the influential art-punk scene. She was a founding member of the punk band The Mutants and has appeared on many music recordings and participated in several films and books.
Sally's most recent film is a documentary about the show that her band, The Mutants, played with The Cramps at Napa State Mental Hospital called, we were there to be there, released in 2021.
A selection of her most recent painting exhibitions include:
Field Trip, Psychedelic Solution
Curated by Fred Tomaselli: Outsider Art Fair NY
Punk Is Coming: MOCA Westport
“A Cumulative Tale”
Curated by Robin winters and Brigitte Engler, spring slash break art show
Daydream believer, 33 orchard St. NYC new paragraph solo show.
“Ms. Webster's paintings are a lot of fun. Like pop songs, they may not be the heaviest on substance or the likeliest to survive the rigors of long term art history. But like psychedelic drugs or daydreams, they are potent, arresting and capable of momentarily altering your perception. And like a goofily infectious Monkeys song they will almost certainly make you smile”
NY times; Martha Schwendener reviewing Daydream believer
2018
Daydream Believer. 33 Orchard St, New York
1999
Drawings, Paintings, and Photographs. Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Field trip, Psychedelic Solution. Curated By Fred Tomaselli. Outsider Art Fair NYC Punk Is Coming Museum of Contemporary Art Westport Connecticut 2019 30 Years of Dutch Courage. Cokkie Snoei Gallery. Rotterdam, Netherlands Fact or Fiction. Spring Break Art Show. New York 2018 Beasts at Brooklyn. Green Door Gallery. Brooklyn, New York Return to light. Green Door Gallery. Brooklyn, New York 2017 Larry Clark: White Trash Bushwick. Luhring Augustine Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Four More Years. Planthouse Gallery, New York 2016 ALOE. A Language of Exaltation: Seven Artists Reflect on Their Work. Curated by Larry Qualls, Five Myles Gallery. Brooklyn, New York. “No Money No Honey”, 33 Orchard. NYC, New York Dark Star; Abstraction and Cosmos. Planthouse. Curated by Raymond Foye, New York 2015 Bad Presidents Make Good Art. D&F Contemporary. New York 2013 NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum NYC, New York Dream Out, Showroom, New York 2010 Lightshow. Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, New York Crybaby, Bowman/Bloom Gallery, New York, New York 2009 The Beast in Me. Bowman/Bloom Gallery, New York 2008 Roadworks. Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York 2007 Womanizer. Deitch Projects, New York Quirky. Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York 2006 Drawing Pairs. Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York 2002 Selections. Drawing Center, New York 1998 F.I.S.T. Angelus Novus Project Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium 1997 Angelus Novus Project Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium 1996 Baseball Show. Curt Marcus Gallery. New York Works on Paper, Gracie Mansion/Fred Dorfman Projects, New York Drawings, Galerie Sanguine, Paris, France Picture This, CBGB’s Gallery, New York 1995 Jessica Gandolf & Sally Webster, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York City Folk, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, curated by Carlo McCormick and Aaron Rose 1994 Selections. Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York Can You Believe Your Eyes, Recent American Drawings, Feature Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, curated by Hudson 1993 Exquisite Corpse. Drawing Center, New York (catalogue) Let the Great Constellation of Flickering Ashes Be Heard, Feature Gallery, New York Group Show, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California 1992 Tattoo Collection. Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Les Enfants Terribles. Wooster Gardens, New York The Mud Club, Winchester Cathedral and Lake Nairobi, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, curated by Hudson, Feature Gallery, New York Nepotism II, Max Fish Gallery, New York 1991 Huma Bhabha. Tom Friedman, David Shaw, and Sally Webster, Feature Gallery, New York 1990 Godhead. Feature Gallery, New York
Works held in private collections in New York and Los Angeles