Eric Sall | Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Banana?

Tinney Contemporary is proud to present Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Banana?, a solo exhibition of works by Tulsa-based artist Eric Sall. The exhibition will be on display from January 4 to February 15, 2025. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 11 from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. in conjunction with the Downtown Art District Alliance’s Second Saturday Art Crawl.

Sall’s imposing, colorful, abstract paintings contain a restrained-yet-energetic gesturalism. Each large canvas is oriented vertically, approximating a doorway—viewers gaze through these thresholds to fields of color, brushstroke confetti, geometric internal rhythm, and jumbled cartoonish forms resembling gemstones, leaves, four-leaf clovers, peppermints and pinwheels. The works take on an immersive quality by virtue of their scale, color, and rhythm.

The title of the exhibition, Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Banana?, is an absurdist childhood knock-knock joke of subverted expectation, a mad-hatter-style interrupting-goad. Sall’s work is abstraction at its best: a perfect response to the everyday assault on meaning, to the cheapening of language, to abounding absurdism. These somatic exercises in mark making offer emergency exits, backdoor escape routes into pure color and movement. The exhibition is an argument for chromatherapy as antidote for the chronically online—leave it to the rods and cones to rewire your brain, if only for a moment.

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Eric Sall (b, 1976, Sioux Falls, SD) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute, his Master of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and attended the Yale Summer School of Music and Art. Sall has attended numerous artists’ residencies, including the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Roswell Artist in Residence Program, LMCC Workspace Residency, Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, and the Grant Wood Art Colony.

Sall has exhibited at Keijsers Koning, Dallas, TX; ATM Gallery, New York, NY; Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO; Orth Contemporary, Tulsa, OK; ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA; Roswell Museum of Art, Roswell, NM; and Acuna-Hansen, Los Angeles, CA.

His work may be found in several private and public collections including the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas; the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH; the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO; and the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, New Mexico.

Sall is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, the Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, and an Art in Architecture commission through the GSA.

The artist lives and works in Tulsa, OK.

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