OVERUNDER by David Salle
Burgess Modern + Contemporary is proud to showcase work by contemporary painter David Salle. Salle’s OverUnder is a colorful portfolio displaying a stylized tree that vertically bisects the picture plane. A glum man in black and white striped clothes appears to have stopped a woman wearing a white bikini and dark sunglasses. Salle creates a screwball Garden of Eden replete with canonical symbolism and implied moral conflicts. The juxtaposed protagonists are inspired by the wo