“His canvases are populated with dramatic images lifted from sources as various as his own black-and-white photographs, eighteenth through twentieth century French and American painting, print advertising from the fifties, and “how to draw” manuals. Their juxtaposition gives his paintings a mystery and charge..” — Broad Art Foundation

In appropriating scenes from art history, advertising, design, and popular culture, Salle creates an assemblage of mixed cultural references… Salle’s work is emblematic of what has been termed postmodern…his paintings are visual events that insist on the primacy of seeing, and whose purpose is to access emotion.” — Craig Houser

“Subverting the recognizable and allowing the familiar to become strange through odd juxtapositions, details, and illogical compositions, ” — Joan Young