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Orange County Tastemaker's
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May 17, 2003
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Bradford J. Salamon’s extensive series of paintings and their collective title “Orange County Tastemakers” were inspired by “Making Taste”, an article by Jed Perl that appeared in The New Republic on February 4, 2002. In it, Perl reviewed four books about individuals whom he dubbed tastemakers, Alfred Barr and Peggy Guggenheim among them. At the end of the piece, Perl expressed serious doubt whether anyone could wield the same type of influence over cultural taste today. Perl conveyed an impression that because of today’s trends in marketing art, a gallery or museum might be more interested in reaching an existing audience rather than educating and developing a new collector base. This led us to speculate whether there are individuals on the Orange County art scene that could have a similar impact on taste today and the manner in which they might revolutionize it. |
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The book contains 36 color images and essays by Irene Hoffman-Curator of Contemporary Art for the Orange County Museum of Art and Tyler Stallings-Curator of Exhibitions for the Laguna Art Museum..
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The Orange County Tastemaker's catalog is available for $20.
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Selected works from Tastemaker's catalog
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Self Portrait 16"x12"
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Aaron Kraton 20"x16"
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Oil on canvas-sold
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Oil on canvas
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(In the collection of Gerald Buck)
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(In the collection of the artist)
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"Salamon uses the rendition of his subjects as a
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celebration of color and form and creates a three-way |
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dialogue between subject, artist,
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and the painting process." |
| -Tyler Stallings | |
| Curator of Exhibitions | |
| Laguna Art Museum | |
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Cheryl Stokes 24"x20"
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Pat Sparkuhl 36"x24"
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Oil on canvas-sold
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Oil on canvas-sold
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(In the collection of Cheryl Stokes)
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(In the collection of The Laguna Art Museum)
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Eric Sanders 48"x48"
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Jamie Wilson 36"x45"
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Oil on canvas-sold
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Oil on canvas-sold
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Tony Delap 36"x24"
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Tyler Stallings 24"x20"
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Oil on canvas-sold
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Oil on canvas-sold
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(In the collection of the Guggenheim Gallery At Chapman University)
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(In the collection of Tyler Stallings)
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Irene Hoffman 50"x30"
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Tom Dowling 75"x45"
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Oil on canvas
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Oil on canvas
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"The experience of being one of Bradford J. Salamon's
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portrait subjects revealed much to me about his passion |
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as an artist and the intellectual rigor with
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which he approaches his work." |
| -Irene Hoffman | |
| Curator of Contemporary Art | |
| Orange County Museum of Art | |
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Roberta Carasso 36"x36"
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Oil on canvas-sold
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