LEEAHN Seoul is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of David Salle in Korea as its grand opening exhibition. Salle and other artists, such as Eric Fischl and Julian Schnabel, represent American art in 1980s. The artist has been creating his unique painting style that stands out with images combined from incongruity and accidental way.

One of the signal elements of Salle's painting has been to present melding itself. It is possible to identify diverse cultural signs, drawn from an array of eras and locales, in Salle's work. More interesting from the point of view of pure painting may be to observe how succinctly and precisely salle has been able to combine distinct subject techniques and styles in the same canvas. On a Theoretical Level, the combination of photographic with painterly imagery - often the same image is both photographic and painterly - is one of Salle's primary achievements.

The exhibition at LEEAHN consists of ten new works. The exhibiting works show about three types of the characteristics. First one is of mid-sized diptychs, featuring reclining women on the bottom panels with complex abstraction on top. Another highlights what could be called simplified "camp imagery" with disparate floating images. And the third comprises small paintings with images of reclining women blended into images of lakes and boats.