Dalton Carlson: Salman Opening Reception

Salman is the culmination of Dalton Carlson’s research for his Master of Fine Art degree at the University at Buffalo. The exhibition features paintings, prints, and sculptures that function as a capitalist critique of large corporations and the methods they employ to control workers. Salman uses Atlantic Salmon as a metaphor for the modern laborer, showing corporations’ strategies to domesticate the human and the non-human.

Dalton Carlson (b.1998, Aurora, CO) is an interdisciplinary American artist working in Buffalo, NY. He received his BFA from Colorado Mesa University for Studio Art (2020) and his MFA from University at Buffalo for Studio Art (2024). Carlson is known for his painterly self-portraiture that explores his role within the larger systems in his life. His most recent body of work, Salman questions the methods by which corporations control their workers by comparing laborers to domesticated Atlantic Salmon.

He will be presenting this body of work at The Western New York Book Arts Center in 2024 for his Master’s thesis. The opening reception is Friday, March 29th. For more information, click here.