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"My practice is so solitary, and I’ve found that being able to share my process online makes it feel social. I also love being able to show people what goes on behind the curtain - how the work is made. I don’t really feel pressure to document and share – it’s a fun part of my process."
Claire Salvo is an American painter best known for her meticulous acrylic portraits rendered directly onto U.S. dollar bills. Using the bill’s design as both constraint and collaborator, she integrates serial numbers, seals, and Washington’s oval into compositions that honor a wide range of art-historical icons and cultural figures. The result is a crisp fusion of craft and concept: small works that ask big questions about value, representation, and who gets immortalized on our most public symbols.
Salvo’s practice is as fluent online as it is in the gallery. Time-lapse videos of her process have earned a devoted social media following, translating into strong demand among emerging collectors. Professionally floated and framed, the bills command surprising presence on the wall, while their intimate scale and clear narrative make them highly collectible. Together, Salvo’s precision and wit offer a timely, enduring proposition: art that reassigns value by painting directly on the object that claims to define it.
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