Pierre Salsiccia

Pierre Salsiccia and family arrived in the United States in 1969 after a circuitous immigration from his birthplace in the small mouintain village of San Giuseppe Jato in Sicily. After living in the suburbs of Saint Raphael on the French Riviera for a few years, and then on to New Hapshire, he finally settled in California.

Although excelling in drawing and painting at an early age, Pierre, a self-taught artist, chose a career in science instead of art, receiving a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University in the late 70's.

As a boy, Pierre executed pencil and watercolor studies, and through his exposure to the work of the artist Torcolti as a teenager during his last year in France, he chose surrealism as the direction for his adult work.

Combining powerful artistic sensibilities with innovative engineering concepts, Pierre has developed great notoriety in the art community in general and the bronze sculpture milieu in particular.

Working with nationally acclaimed sculptors such as Thomas Shomberg and Todd Andrews, Salsiccia masterminded structural support concepts and subsequent methodology never attempted before that allows over life-sized bronze sculptures to be bolstered without detracting from the work of art itself.

During the 80's Pierre's interest in art once again emerged and he began to do fine pencil drawings and comedia del'arte tempera on panels. Two tableaus 8 feet by 16 feet are currently on display at Giuseppe Italian restaurant in Cambell, California. The response to this new work was so enthusiastic that it was used to promote fund raising for a local candidate running for Mayor and the San Jose Opera and from that exposure, Pierre received several commisions to embellish a local Italian restaurant.

Another important commission led Pierre to the creation of a cubistic Statue of Liberty, which in turn brought forth in him a need to rework his ideas regarding traditional cubism. With great excitement and sensing a strong challenge to his inventiveness, Pierre went beyond conventionality and began to communicate a new freshness of emotion and imagery in his work through the use of symbolism and historically factual details - a complex style which can be described as "multidimensional"

This new direction of Pierre's, features work depicting various colorful, interlocking transparent geometrical shapes utilizing vibrant and saturated hues.