There is a version of Greg Salvatori's story that goes like this: he grew up in poverty on the French-Italian border, put himself through school, worked his way to Ferragamo's headquarters in Florence, opened a studio in London, then New York, then a gallery in Provincetown. A photographer published in over thirty countries. A painter whose work radiates color and joy with the deliberate intensity of someone who has earned both.

That version is true. But it leaves out the part where he started making things with his hands.

Odd Socks, opening Friday, July 3 at Greg Salvatori Gallery, 366 Commercial Street, Provincetown, is his only solo show of 2026 — and its most surprising revelation is not on the walls. It's on the shelves, the plinths, the pedestals: handbuilt ceramic sculptures that Salvatori has been making quietly, in private, while the gallery hummed around him. This is their first public showing.