Moving from Architecture / Space -inspired paintings to complex map imagery, sometimes painted onto wood, then to a panoply of motifs including spacecraft, airports and maps. More recently, my work included mappings of institutional space programs.

As an artist I am researching the location of the familiar in a abstract sense. Detail, beauty and lyrical abstraction have been a preoccupation of how I look at objects.

There is a certain pull that I am attracted to, making beautiful objects out of ordinary movements. The paintings here are large, colorful, impulsive and spontaneous with influences hinted by the work of Sigmar Polke, Richard Diebenkorn,
& Peter Haley.

Salvatore Reda lives and works in Portland OR. His painting and video work has been exhibited at the .... Santa Monica Museum of Art, Adamski Gallery of Contemporary Art, Aachen, and Basel Switzerland, His art work delves in architecture as fantasy, from the vernacular and domestic architecture of Los Angeles to that found in the Western and Eastern United States.

MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2001. Committee: Mike Kelly, Jack Goldstein, Stephen Prina, Lita Albuquerque & Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe