Jesus Salas

NIAD artist since 2014
Jesus Salas
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Since 2014, Jesus Salas has produced Interior of the Bus, a daily practice of documenting his commute to NIAD. His map-like drawings record the regularity of his routine as well as the idiosyncratic yet significant changes that happen over a long period of time.

Pepper Stetler, Professor of Art and Architecture History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio

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Artist Bio

Daily, Jesus Salas documents the interior of the bus that brings him to NIAD Art Center in graphite and sometimes marker on found sheets of paper. Less frequently, on the flip side of the page, he captures the exterior of the bus.

Salas also creates paintings with a minimalist field overlaid with numbers 1 to 100. Often the numerals become unclear or blurred due to Salas’s rapid layering.

Both bodies of work represent Salas’s efforts to record and order his environment.

Exhibition Highlights
Jesus Salas
NIAD Gallery Exhibition
2017
"Outside Forces"
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Art Enables Washington DC
September, 2024
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Into the Brightness: Artists from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth & NIAD
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Oakland Museum of California
May, 2023
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Another Fine Mess Age: Anthony Grant x NIAD
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NIAD Windows Exhibition
2020
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A Kind of Movement
organized by Jay Wehnert
Art And Learning Studio
2019
Ether Here Nor There: Anthony Grant x NIAD
NIAD Art Center
2019
Future Cats Career Box
NAP Projects
2018