Drawings of the face and figure / William Salit

William Salit 

A portfolio of drawings on paper of the face and figure

Stan Asleep Conte, oil wash, pastel on paper 14” x 10” 2002

Val Facing Left Conte 25” x 19” 1993

Hands Flapping Conte 36” x 24” 2005

Rich, with Glasses Conte, oil wash, pastel on paper 30” x 22” 2003

Val Twisting Right Conte 25” x 19” 1990

Painter, after Andrea del Sarto Conte, oil wash, pastel on paper 30” x 25” 2005

Yoshio with Scarf Conte, oil wash 22” x 15” 1995

Bub Conte 25” x 19” 1993

Silver Self Portrait Graphite, oil wash on paper 30” x 22” 1984

Woman on Stool Charcoal 42” x 42” 2005

Terry Conte, oil wash 22” x 15” 1998

Self Portrait Conte, oil wash on paper 24” x 16” 2002

Valerie Conte 25” x 19” 2004

Stan Reclining Conte, oil wash on paper 30” x 22 “ 2004

Walter Boxing Conte 36” x 24” 2005

Self Portrait with long hair Conte and pastel 24� x 18�

2002

Stan Acrylic on resin coated paper 10” x 8” 2004

Photo: Pete Thompson

“ About William Salit

“ Firmly rooted in drawing, my work explores the empathic synapse and invisible tethers between artist and subject. Working primarily from the figure and face, I use line to carve form on paper. Sometimes a mark seems to instantly describe a form in a specific moment: the slope of a nose, the tuck of a chin. More often, the image betrays evidence of the hand dancing crazily around the page waiting to find its groove. In the end, when I’m lucky, these marks and loops and tints have caught a subject in that small, still gap between past and future, in some intersection of their being and mine.” “ Raised in Upstate New York, Salit received his BFA in drawing and printmaking from Binghamton University. Currently living in San Francisco, he is an award-winning graphic designer and art director, and maintains a painting studio at the Belcher Street Studios.

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