Salmon Farm, Installation of Sewn Salmon Fillets, Motors, Net, and Rope, Installation Size Varies, 2025.
Intended For Consumption, Oil on Canvas, 2025.
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Un-natural Selection: Experiments, Installation View
Dalton Carlson: Sal/Man
Reception: Friday, June 20, 2025 | 6–9 PM Fried Fruit Art Space | Cargo District | 615 S 16th Street, Wilmington, NC Fried Fruit Art Space is pleased to present Sal/Man, a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Dalton Carlson. The exhibition reception is on Friday, June 20, from 6 to 9 PM. Sal/Man examines the parallels between the domestication of Atlantic salmon and the modern American worker. Through mixed media works on paper, sculpture, print, and painting, Carlson uses the fish as a metaphor to question how laborers are shaped, selected, and subdued within corporate systems. Carlson, based in Minneapolis, MN recently earned his MFA from SUNY Buffalo. His work reflects his lived experience in blue-collar labor of the supermarket seafood industry, exploring how consumption, distribution, and survival intersect. The Sal/Man series expands on themes introduced in his earlier exhibition Skinless Finless Headless Boneless Gutless Spineless, including employee/employer relations and workers rights. A pop-up of RISO-printed patterns—created by attendees of Carlson’s Pattern with RISO workshop hosted by UNCW—will be on view on the backside of the gallery for one-night-only during the opening reception. |