Salvatore Del Deo is a painter engaged in a spirited dialogue with his work, responding to the deep questions presented by the paintings themselves. It is this challenge that has held Del Deo's passion through more than fifty years of painting. His is a style that seems to traverse the territory between the realistic and the abstract. Del Deo grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, and attended the Rhode Island School of Design. He also attended the Vesper George School of Art in Boston, and the Art Students League in New York, where he studied with Edwin Dickinson and John McPherson. As a young painter, he began attending Henry Hensche's summer classes in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he continues to reside.