A resident of Key West, Salem is well known to this area and has had several previous exhibitions at Gingerbread. He is widely collected and considered one of Key Wests's finest artists.
Salem started a professional painting career traveling the arts festival circuit in the Eastern United States and painted in New York City for two years. He later moved to the countryside of Pennsylvania in 1974 and began a serious painting career, inspired by the landscape and nature of central Pennsylvania. His acrylic paintings capture his life-long passion for the world of nature matched by an almost compulsive intensity for detail and color within the framework of lush flora and fauna. His wildlife is painstakingly accurate, although the resulting work is as much the product of his feelings as precise representation.
Salem's show continues through March 6. The gallery is located uptown at 1207 Duval St. Info: 296-8900.