David Salle: A Well-Leafed Tree Remixed Times Square Arts installation

Using his acclaimed Tree of Life (2020-21) series as a source of inspiration, David Salle has created A Well-Leafed Tree Remixed, accentuating the themes of  his paintings  with a dynamic choreography of moving objects, painterly gestures, and narrative elements. With surprising color harmonies that coexist, and at times collide with the grisaille palette of the figures, A Well-Leafed Tree Remixed tells the story of a painting sprung to life. Binding together disparate pictorial languages with his signature wit and visual musicality, Salle uses animation to compound  the narrative potential of his figures, producing in the process a complex yet legible mode of storytelling.

A Well-Leafed Tree Remixed is presented as part of Midnight Moment,  the world's largest and longest-running digital public art programme. Presented nightly to millions of viewers each year, Midnight Moment showcases the work of contemporary artists on one of the most iconic public canvases — the electronic billboards of Times Square.

Synchronized nightly from 11:57pm to 12am on over 92 digital displays spanning 41st to 49th Streets, the programme brings public art on a monumental scale to New Yorkers and visitors from all across the globe, 364 nights a year.