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John Salminen is a signature member of numerous prestigious art societies in the
United States including AWS-DF, NWS, TWS-DM and the SDWS. Additionally,
he's a member of top art organizations in China and Australia. John has won over
250 awards in national and international exhibitions. He received the Shanghai
Biennial Award, The Pakistan Lifetime Achievement Award and the Thailand
Ministry of Culture award and has participated in forty-two invitational
international exhibitions in China, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, Russia,
Greece, Mexico, Pakistan, Canada, Italy, England, Belgium and Australia. John is
a frequent judge and juror for national and international exhibitions and his work
is included in permanent collections in the United States, Asia and Europe. He is
featured in forty-two books on four continents.
“I began painting as an abstract expressionist, more interested in the expressive
nature of paint than in representations of objects. I still paint pure abstractions
but most of my works are realistic with an underlying foundation of abstraction.
Even painting representationally, I continue to rely heavily on my background in
abstraction to guide me. The balance between abstraction and the illusion of
reality is the challenge that keeps me excited about painting every day.”
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