Alan Salabert
Alan Salabert's work is relevant to the Minimalist movement today and has drawn inspiration from and built upon the basis laid down by such artists as Donald Judd, Richard Serra, and Mark Rothko. His architectural background has greatly influenced his body of work in the design elements and rules he abides by - proportion, composition, color, texture, hierarchy, and balance. Alan Salabert's work focuses a great deal on the medium itself and the ways in which it reacts, as well as pure and unhindered color. As he so elegantly puts it, "Minimalism is what I always come back to: The idea of stripping something down to its most fundamental traits and celebrating the inherent beauty of those traits.. In my mind, it is the purest form of abstraction."
Alan Salabert was born in Silvis, Illinois, and raised nearby in Moline, Illinois. Growing up, his parents were very supportive of his urge to create and encouraged him to pursue his passion. At the age of seventeen he enrolled in the architecture program at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. After graduating from the University of Illinois, he studied abroad at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Versailles, France and from there he went on to attain a Masters degree in architecture at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. His knowledge of architecture seeps into his work as a painter and is obvious in his proportions, compositions, and textures. Salabert works mainly with acrylic paint and ink, favoring its color range, specificity, and viscosity control. Currently, he paints and shows frequently in Chicago, Illinois, and he is also involved in fashion as a creative director for men's clothing. He is rapidly emerging on an international level and has shown work as far abroad as Serbia and Dubai.
