It's kind of like the right dress on the right person at the right time.

David Ellsworth

AAW Symposium Gallery Critique, 2011

This is stunning work, quite extraordinary to look into, the rippled edge, the pattern inside and outside, it all just sings.

Steven Hogbin

AAW Symposium Gallery Critique, 2007

The craft requires aesthetic, spatial and mechanical chops, firing in concert.

Rebecca Klassen

American Art Collector Magazine, 2015

The small, delicate wood bowls give evidence to his industrious hand through smooth, seamless scoops of air carved into patterns of harmonious balance.

Anchorage News Daily

Sept. 30, 2005

Carving complex designs in very small pieces of wood requires the utmost patience and skill, something Salesin has in spades! The result is wood turning at its best – intricately crafted vessels to be admired, touched, examined, and coveted.

Tony Sikes

The Guild Magazine, 2006

Salesin easily has the most individual pieces on display, several dozen at least. The patterns in the cups and bowls are so hypnotizing, you may lose the sense you're looking at wood.

Wallace Baine

Santa Cruz Sentinel, 2011

His pattern bowls, which contain radiating textures, use the strategy of reflecting light to a dazzling, otherwordly effect.

Rebecca Klassen

American Art Collector Magazine, 2015

It adds to the mystery of the piece—a tiny cup, the repetitive mathematical pattern incised precisely within its concavity, with a hint of color being continually released from within the density of black.

Paul Zelansky

From "Color," Prentice-Hall, 2006

Josh Salesin is a master of ornamental turning whom I met through the Center's exhibition Rose-Engines and Kings: Contemporary Ornamental Turning. His forms, often in African blackwood, are distinctive and unique.

Albert LeCoff

From "1x1 - A Legacy of Craft, Community and Art in Wood," 2020