“…It's like doilies in heaven. But to be more specific, the hanging sculptures resemble mutant mashups of jellyfish, tutus, water lilies, wedding cakes, chandeliers, and party favors…”
GREG COOK
The Providence Phoenix
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“…It's a jazzy, delightful installation; you feel as if you're actually inside the collage, navigating your way through and under and around its bright jumble of elements. They clamor and clash, but they fit together well enough to invite you to explore.”
CATE McQUAID
The Boston Globe
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“…sculptures that dangle from the gallery’s ceiling like giant wind chimes. Each individual sculpture, meanwhile, is composed of smaller pieces of paper that have been cut in a dizzying variety of loops, pinwheels, ringlets and other shapes. Wandering through the installation feels a bit like swimming with a school of Cubist jellyfish.”
BILL VAN SICLEN
The Providence Journal
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“…(Salerno) is bold and inventive with color, making sculptures and paintings that often subvert scenes of domesticity and romantic stereotypes. Some work as twisted fairy tales… And there are signs of the housewife unleashed to confront her archetypes in many of the skillfully composed narrative designs…”
DOUG NORRIS
Art New England