Artifacts set — a. Salamí

Concrete Drawing (experiments)

concrete, stained glass, found objects
Blue Farm Residency, PA
2025

Open Mouth Object
Stained Glass, solder, colored pencil on paper
2025
Blue Farm Residency, PA

Subsequent Findings
Colored pencil on paper, stained glass, solder
Blue Farm Residency, PA 2025

Donated to the Holland Project for their biennial fundraiser, ALL-IN 2025
Reno, NV

Part of Group Show “Wet Incantation”
Sept 5- Dec 9, 2024
Sheppard Contemporary, University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV

Homunculus
colored pencil on paper, stained glass, solder, found objects, fishing line, rocks from Pyramid Lake
Reno, NV
2024

This piece interprets language as a human phenomenon that allows us to cycle words and histories throughout generations in order to make sense of a collective + individual experience of the world. In a similar way, water is cycled throughout the land and carries with it information about where it has been and where it is going. The camouflage pattern on the lips are appropriated from different WWII military uniforms, and point to the way humans can mimic patterns in nature for destructive ends and similarily, language can be manipulated as a weapon to distort history and destroy life. Unlike mazes, which typically have an entrance + exit, confusing dead ends, and lots of fabricated disorientation, labyrinths have one path that leads towards the center and then out again, and are designed for thoughtful meandering. The labyrinth at the heart of the Homunculus acts as the archetype for the connection between language + water

Part of All-In Fundraiser show
Holland Project Galleries
Reno, NV
2023

Rabbit
graphite, colored pencil on paper
2023

Part of Group Show “The Lilley Co-Lab”
John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of ArtReno,NV
2022

Pebble

paper clay, gouache, colored pencil, rocked collected from the shores of Pyramid Lake
Reno, NV
2022

Part of Chain Email Group Exhibition “For Good Luck”
JAN. 9 – FEB. 9, 2024
Holland Project Galleries
Reno, NV

Warship

ceramic, solder, stained glass
Reno, NV
2024

Part of Group Show “Life is Delicious”
March-April 2024
Curve Line Space
Los Angeles , CA

Mine (olive branch with 3 Grenades)

found metal plate, ceramic, solder, mirror shard, pebbles from Pyramid Lake
Reno, NV2024

Radio Ammunition Mix - Click to listen on Soundcloud

Tracklist for Mine (an olive branch & 3 Grenades) mixtape

graphite on paper

Billboard Series
Holland Project Galleries
Aug 2022
Wells Avenue & Pueblo Street, Reno, NV

“The Holland Project’s Billboard Gallery showcases the work of exceptional emerging and established regional artists on billboards throughout Reno’s surface streets.”
Link to article

I Dream of Dreams of Fire
colored pencil on paper
Reno, NV 2022