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Barron Storey, accomplished and highly influential illustrator, fine artist, and musician, has produced a large series of artworks on paper which plumbs his deep and varied musical influences. Storey has spent decades creating a series of journals which chronicle his personal artistic journeys, and this show is an opportunity to bring together two of his most fertile creative pursuits; illustration and music.
Mia Brownell was born in Chicago to a sculptor and biophysicist. She uses the conventions of the painted food still life as a means to comment on contemporary issues surrounding food. Her paintings simultaneously reference 17th century Dutch Realism and the coiling configurations of molecular imaging. Susan Siegel’s intimate, delicate paintings — inspired by 18th Century masters such as Fragonard, Gainsborough and Watteau — seek to revive dormant stories within historical portraiture. In place of men and women, Siegel inserts a cast of animal-human hybrids. Metaphors of power and artifice, these once un-empowered agrarian creatures command the trappings of the ruling class. The Victorian/Edwardian eras have long fascinated Aaron Smith. For years he has collected vintage photographs of men of the period. To him, these men represent a masculine ideal, if largely a constructed one. Their bearded faces and distinguished attire are spectacular, while their stiff poses and serious expressions belie an existential vulnerability. Brad Woodfin's animal subjects are chosen for a specific reason much the same way a portrait painter selects human subjects. All of Woodfin’s delicately rendered creatures emerge from a deep black background, barely breaking the glossy surface shadow, existing in a no man’s land between darkness and light, power and vulnerability, a mournful celebration of the majesty of the animal world.
After four years on the Lower East Side of New York, Sloan Fine Art founder/director Alix Sloan closed the physical space in late 2011 to pursue the less constrictive approach of a nomadic gallery. Over the past four years the gallery has participated in art fairs and mounted solo and group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans and Miami.
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