”Floating Islands”, 2000-2023, watercolor/gouache, 14”-17”. 

  Dancers from the Ballet de Paris, 1937. My mother Marina Franca(Marina Salz) is third from the right. Alexandra Danilova is first on the right. My mother, along with Danilova, would go on to dance for "Les Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo".  Her stage name then was Marina Franca. 

“Blue Dancer”, 2001, watercolor, 12”-10”. In memory of my mother.

My mother Marina Salz (Marina Franca) doing the can can in a publicity photo for the Ballet Russe production of Gaite Parisienne(1939).

Penumbra", 1995, oil/wood, 24"-32" by Marc Salz. This painting and the painting below ("Dimitri's Dream") were both in a solo show in Millersville University in 1996 curated by John Markowitz. The photos are by Will Brown. 

“Dimitri's Dream", 1995, Oil/wood, 25"-33". The "Dimitri" in the titled refers to composer Dimitri Shostakovich. I was also looking at the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and their use of the elements earth, water, fire and air: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25LlcZDHhXg
For more triptychs from the series, please go to posts made on September 5, 2010 and on July 2, 2008.

"The Ages"(for Agnes Martin), 2001, oil/Baltic birch, 27"-23". From the series “Other Languages”(2001-2005). The ages as seen in a section of a tree or in the wrinkles in our skin. The fingerprints of time.