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Arkansas Arts Center
April 26–June 9, 2002

"A professor of art at Arkansas State University, this sculptor makes perplexing work from everyday materials. A past prize winner in the Arkansas Arts Center Delta Exhibitions, Salvest has been intriguing Art Center patrons for many years. The art writer, Kim Levin, offered this description: "Salvest's work speaks plainly. It is composed of perfectly ordinary objects and simple language. It has to do with signage, inventory, and quotation. It carries echoes of folk art, tramp art, craft work, and busy work." Salvest himself is less succinct and modest, "I recognize my work to be no more or less than a record of an ongoing effort to understand myself in relationship to the world around me." As an artist he is highly acclaimed evidenced by the grants given to him from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York City; the National Endowment for the Arts; and the Arkansas Arts Council, to name only a few. "

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