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.
Recently he has begin to create paintings with a minimalist field overlaid with numbers 1 to 100. Often the numerals become unclear or blurred due Salas’s hurried layering.
Both bodies of work represent Salas’s efforts to record and order his environment.
// Jesus’ available work //
exhibition history
Into the Brightness: Artists from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth & NIAD // Oakland Museum of California // May 2023
Empty Kind Of Full, organized by Tara Neuffer // NIAD Online Exhibition // May 2023
Search Engine organized by Diego Leclery // NIAD Online Exhibition // January 2023
NIAD Ink: 35 Years of Prints organized by Andrés Cisneros-Galindo // Online Exhibition // December 2022
In Love., organized by Meg Pohlod // NIAD Online Exhibition // May 2022
WIN WIN 10 Silent Auction Preview Exhibition // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // February 2022
Another Fine Mess Age: Anthony Grant x NIAD // NIAD Windows Exhibition // 2020
A Kind of Movement, organized by Jay Wehnert // Portland Art And Learning Studios // 2019
Ether Here Nor There: Anthony Grant x NIAD // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // 2019
Hailing From Parts Unknown, organized By Curtis Turner // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // 2019
Redefining Contemporary Art, organized by Courtney Eldridge // Depot, Steamboat Springs // 2019
Future Cats Career Box // NAP Projects, New York // 2018
Can Did, organized By Julio Rodriguez // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // 2018
Indeterminate Space, organized by Anthony Piñata // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // 2018
All Of The Light, organized by Gina Borg // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // 2017
Jesus Salas // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // 2017
Shapeshifting Superheavies, organized by Jessica Snow // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // 2017
Variations On a Theme, organized by Robert Wuilfe // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // 2016
Adventure!, organized by Scott MacLeod // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // 2015
The Newest New // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // 2014