Fredric Snitzer Gallery is pleased to present Salvatore La Rosa: durational works, a solo exhibition by Miami-based artist Salvatore La Rosa. Marking the artist’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery, La Rosa has produced a selection of powerful, multilayered oil paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, informed by personal experience and self-reflection. La Rosa’s works are likened to markers of time, with each piece worked and reworked over the course of many years.

For the past fifty years, La Rosa has consistently looked inward, producing dense, layered, and diaristic works. Through cutting, layering, building, and reworking, La Rosa’s technique imbues each piece with dense, raw, physical energy. La Rosa’s work explores personal history and daily experiences.

La Rosa remains part of Miami’s historical art narrative. His work is included in numerous public and private collections, including the NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale; Miami-Dade Art in Public Places; Southeast Banks, Miami; the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami; and Kent State University. Notable exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial (1974); Trading places, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (2005); and Under the Bridge Art Space, North Miami (2025).

Salvatore La Rosa has lived alone for most of his life. His long-term relationship with solitary work is marked by quiet devotion, which is inscribed on the surface of each painting, sculpture, and work on paper. Every mark becomes part of an ongoing conversation with time, densely layered and accumulated like fragments of memory.

On the back of one work, La Rosa writes as if addressing it directly, explaining that he has “carried it forward” for as long as he could and that he must now “let it rest” for a while.