Starlings of Fort Mason

William Salit 

Starlings of Fort Mason A portfolio of monotypes

Starlings of Fort Mason No. 5 Monotype 10˝ x 8˝ 2005

Starlings of Fort Mason No. 4 Monotype 10˝ x 8˝ 2005

Starlings of Fort Mason No. 2 Monotype 10˝ x 8˝ 2005

Starlings of Fort Mason No. 6 Monotype 10˝ x 8˝ 2005

Starlings of Fort Mason No. 1 Monotype 10˝ x 8˝ 2005

Starlings of Fort Mason No. 7 Monotype 10˝ x 8˝ 2005

Starlings of Fort Mason No. 9 Monotype 10˝ x 8˝ 2005

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 it’s 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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