Jeanette Pasin Sloan Reflected Beauty
JEANETTE PASIN SLOAN REFLECTED BEAUTY APRIL 3 - MAY 3. 2015
LewAllenGalleries Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | info@lewallengalleries.com cover: Teacup, 2014, oil on linen, 22” x 26”
Two Cups with Two Glasses, 2014, gouache and watercolor on paper, 19” x 36”
Jeanette Pasin Sloan REFLECTED BEAUTY as it is about harmony and balance” says Sloan. With every element within the work totally manipulable by the artist, and the arrangements of the components literally infinite, Sloan carefully constructs the environments within her work. She manages to transform her finely tuned technique and a rigorous pursuit of the omnipresence of the beautiful into a probe investigating and toeing the thin edge of abstraction. Images even suggest perceptual effects associated with Op Art, thereby making the real unreal and the unreal real.
To look at a painting or drawing by renowned American realist, Jeanette Pasin Sloan, is to be reminded of the startling beauty that lies just before our eyes in the objects of everyday life. Through Sloan’s singular artistry, her hyperrealistic depiction of ordinary household items -- such as silver cups, teapots, bowls, china and textiles -- conjures a kind of visual alchemy turning the quotidian into the extraordinary. Sloan has a canny sense of arrangement for those articles of domestic still life creating scenes that radiate reflected light in utterly unique and arresting ways. Her knack for the unexpected composition brings reality to the verge of abstraction.
Sloan’s art career literally began in the kitchen, as a young mother painting the simple objects around her, and has now reached the pinnacle of inclusion in major museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of New Mexico, and the art museums of Yale and Harvard. She was recently featured at Valparaiso University’s Brauer Museum of Art accompanied by an extensive catalog entitled The Paintings of Jeanette Pasin Sloan. Sloan holds a BFA from Marymount College in New York and an MFA from the University of Chicago, and her distinctive artworks in oils, gouache, and watercolor, are included in significant public collections.
Her preoccupation with pattern, reflection, and distortion, rendered meticulously thorough articulations of each subject, elevate the commonplace, even the mundane, to the level of the heroic. Pasin Sloan styles the traditional subject of still life into the modern vehicle for this sort of vision, making the work, as art critic James Yoods notes, “among the most perfect considerations of the nobility inherent in the persistence of vision.” “I’ve always thought that my best work was right on the edge of disorder. I think that it is as much about disorder 2
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Pans, 2013, graphite on paper, 22” x 13.5”
Two Spoons, 2010, gouache and watercolor on paper, 7.5” x 18.5”
Teapot, 2013, gouache and watercolor on paper, 17.5” x 19”
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Mirror Glass, 2013, gouache and watercolor on paper, 11� x 10�
Cup with Three Glasses, 2014, oil on linen, 22” x 44”
Circle Pitcher, 2008, gouache and watercolor on Fabriano, 22” x 25”
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Fiesta, 2014, graphite on paper, 13” x 13”
Espressos with Three Cups, 2015, watercolor and graphite on paper, 11” x 21”
Teapot, 2013, oil on linen, 30” x 32”
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Teapot, 2013, graphite on paper, 10.5” x 12.5”
Still Life Drawings, 2015, watercolor and graphite on paper, 12� x 43�
Untitled, 2012, watercolor and graphite on paper, 15� x 15�
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JEANETTE PASIN SLOAN Re-presenting Representation IV, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York
Born: 1946, Chicago, IL 1998
Pushing Boundaries: Lithographs from 9 American Fine Art Presses, DAAP Galleries, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
EDUCATION 1967 BFA Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY
1997
1969 MFA University of Chicago, IL
1996
International Print Exposition, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Objects of Personal Significance: Exhibits USA, traveling exhibition organized by Mid- America Arts Alliance Landfall Press: Twenty-Five Years of Printmaking, Milwaukee Art Museum
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015
LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2014
Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
2013
LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2012
Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Inc. Chicago, IL
2011
1995 1994
Contemporary American Works of Art on Paper, Madigan Library, University of Michigan, Dearborn
1992
Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
Face to Face: Self-Portraits by Chicago Artists, Exhibit Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Lewallen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2008
Women in Print: Prints from 3M by Contemporary Women Printmakers, Concourse Gallery, 3M, St. Paul, Minnesota
1991
Lewallen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Watercolor across the Ages, The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb,
2007
William Havu Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Princeton, New Jersey
2006
Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers, National Museum of Women
2005
J.Cacciola Gallery, New York, New York
2004
J.Cacciola Gallery, New York, New York
1999
Tatistcheff and Company, Inc., New York, NY
1998
in the Arts, Washington, DC 1988
of Art, Kansas City, MO 1987
University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1995
Tatistcheff and Company, Inc., New York, NY
Close Focus: Prints, Drawings and Photographs, National Museum of
Benedictine University, Lisle, IL
American Art, Washington, DC
Quartet Editions, New York, NY
Pulled and Pressed: Contemporary Prints and Multiples, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
Butters Gallery, Ltd., Portland, Oregon 1994
1985
Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL Sister Guala O’Connor Gallery, Rosary College, River Forest, IL
1984
Kirkland Fine Arts Center Gallery, Millikin University, Decatur, IL
1983
Landfall Press Gallery, Chicago, IL
1976
University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Seven Artists: Contemporary Drawings, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH Recent Acquisitions, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1976
Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL 1975
Printed by Women, Port of History Museum at Penn¹s Landing, Philadelphia, PA
1978
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
1978
Drawings: The Eighty-Wrst Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI 1985 1982
“A Just Temper between Propensities”: New Still-Life and Landscape Painting, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Frederick Baker, Inc., Chicago, IL 1997
The Print Society: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Nelson-Atkins Museum
Mainstream America: The Collection of Phil Desing, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
North River Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2004
Transmit + Transform, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2003
Selections, Contemporary Art from the collection of Robert and Doris
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Thimmesh, Saint John’s Art Center, Alice R.Rogers and Target Galleries,
Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso Center for the Arts, Valparaiso, IN
St.John’s University, Collegeville, MN
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Prints by American Artists, Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Falls, TX
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Figure at the Millennium, Art Gallery, Fine Arts Center, Northeastern IL
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Bending Light, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
New York Public Library
Out of Line, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Contemporary American Realist Drawings from the Jalane and Richard
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Davidson Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
2001 2000
1999
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