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Jun 17, 2021 - Jun 23, 2021
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 2008.
18 x 12 in.
Even though Sandi Slone has often worked with oversized brushes—an early series of abstract paintings made with large brooms established her reputation as a young painter — she long has had a predilection for intimate gestures and unexpected incidents that signal her preoccupation with visual metaphors for everything from the physicality of color, that impacts landscape memory and the body, to the current state of our fraught planet. While Slone does not limit herself to any one technique or style there has always been a sense of the hand, calligraphic gestures that expand the language of contemporary abstraction with its wide-ranging reflections as much as her sweeping swaths of paint and transparent pours do. "I still think abstract painting is a world unto itself—a parallel universe infinitely unknown—a perfect representation of the world in its complexity, not unlike music, mathematics and nature’s material spirit. Color is the Spectrum of Time”.
Slone’s first solo exhibitions in New York were represented by Acquavella Galleries in the 1970s and 80s. Her paintings have since been the subject of over 40 solo exhibitions throughout the US and internationally. They are held in numerous permanent museum collections that include the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution,Washington DC; Portland Art Museum, OR; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona Spain (MACBA); Katzen Art Museum American University, Washington, DC; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis Univ, MA; the Alberta Art Museum, Edmonton Canada; Hood Museum, Hanover NH; DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA; Etherington Arts Centre Queen’s Univ, Ontario; International Artists Museum Lodz, Poland; New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge Univ, UK; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Univ,UK; Harvard University Graduate School of Design(GSD); Harvard Univ.Business School; the Davis Museum of Art, Wellesley College, MA; the De Menil Family Trust, Paris— among many other private, corporate and public collections.
Recent gallery and museum exhibitions include “Five Propositions” Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Oct 2019-May 2020); “11 Women of Sprit” Zürcher Gallery NYC (2020); Tibor deNagy Gallery NYC (2018); DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Garden, MA (2018); Sargent’s Daughters gallery NYC; Elizabeth Leach Gallery Portland OR; Sideshow Gallery NYC; Fiterman Art Center CUNY NYC; George and Jôrgen gallery London UK; Galerie Forum, Berlin; Pink Gallery Seoul, Korea; MULTILAYER Vision 20/20, Morgner Museum Soëst Germany (Oct 2020-June 2021) traveling to other venues in England, Germany, Budapest, Hungary (the Vasarely Museum, 2023. )
Slone’s solo exhibitions and works have been reviewed in numerous publications including the New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Artforum, Art In America, ARTnews, ARTnet, Flash Art, Architectural Digest, The London Guardian, Art New England, ARTS Magazine, The Hudson Review, Partisan Review, Artcritical, Interview Magazine, El Pais and Art International.
Sandi Slone is Professor Emerita of painting at the School of Museum of Fine Arts /Tufts University, Boston. She has served as painting faculty in Harvard Univ’s department of Visual and Environmental Studies; in the MFA program a the School of Visual Arts NYC, Brandeis Universitys, MA and others. Slone is a founding board member of Art Omi International and The Fields sculpture Park, NY. Born in Boston, she received her BA in Art History from Wellesley College, Magna Cum Laude, and 5th year diploma from the School of The Museum of Fine Arts. She has been awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship; received travel-research grants from the Clarissa Bartlett foundation, was awarded several residencies from Triangle Arts Association, among other venues including the Santa Fe Art Institute. Slone lives and works in downtown Manhattan since 1985 and Chatham, New York.
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