Roderick Slater
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Roderick Slater is an American
artist
born in Goodrich, Michigan
in 1937. Slater studied art at the National Academy of Design School of Art
in New York City
. His works include painting
s, etching
s, drypoint
s, and colographs and collage
s. He is best known for mixed media
works combining painting
and collage
. Slater’s collages, composed on rectilinear grids
, often include three-dimensional components and fragments of antique paper.
Galleries which have exhibited works by Roderick Slater include the Ann Jacobs Gallery in Atlanta, GA, Dryden Galleries, Providence, RI, Plum Gallery in Kensington, MD, and Frost Gully Gallery in Maine
. Slater's works have also been sold by auction houses such as Christie's in New York
(Aug. 9, 2005), Skinner Inc.
in Boston, MA (May 15, 2009), Luper Auctions, Richmond, VA, and Julia Auctions in Fairfield, ME.
Slater's work Mnemonic Device was included in Paste and Pixels, a 2001 exhibition at Core Gallery in New Paltz, NY.
A series of black and white drawings by Roderick Slater illustrates the book
Up Here in Maine by Gerald E. Lewis, published by Pittsfield Publishers in 1975.
Slater has been cited as an influence by other contemporary artists, including noted American collage artist Jonathan Talbot
and Sarah Bean.
Roderick Slater resides in Maine
.
United States
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artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
born in Goodrich, Michigan
Goodrich, Michigan
Goodrich is a village in Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,353 at the 2000 census. The village is a suburb of Flint located within Atlas Township.-Geography:...
in 1937. Slater studied art at the National Academy of Design School of Art
National Academy of Design
The National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, founded in New York City as the National Academy of Design – known simply as the "National Academy" – is an honorary association of American artists founded in 1825 by Samuel F. B. Morse, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E...
in New York City
New York City
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. His works include painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
s, etching
Etching
Etching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal...
s, drypoint
Drypoint
Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond point. Traditionally the plate was copper, but now acetate, zinc, or plexiglas are also commonly used...
s, and colographs and collage
Collage
A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....
s. He is best known for mixed media
Mixed media
Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.There is an important distinction between "mixed-media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct...
works combining painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
and collage
Collage
A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....
. Slater’s collages, composed on rectilinear grids
Regular grid
A regular grid is a tessellation of n-dimensional Euclidean space by congruent parallelotopes . Grids of this type appear on graph paper and may be used in finite element analysis as well as finite volume methods and finite difference methods...
, often include three-dimensional components and fragments of antique paper.
Galleries which have exhibited works by Roderick Slater include the Ann Jacobs Gallery in Atlanta, GA, Dryden Galleries, Providence, RI, Plum Gallery in Kensington, MD, and Frost Gully Gallery in Maine
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...
. Slater's works have also been sold by auction houses such as Christie's in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
(Aug. 9, 2005), Skinner Inc.
Skinner Incorporated
Skinner is one of the world's leading auction houses for antiques and fine art. It is the only full-service auction house headquartered in New England.-History:...
in Boston, MA (May 15, 2009), Luper Auctions, Richmond, VA, and Julia Auctions in Fairfield, ME.
Slater's work Mnemonic Device was included in Paste and Pixels, a 2001 exhibition at Core Gallery in New Paltz, NY.
A series of black and white drawings by Roderick Slater illustrates the book
Up Here in Maine by Gerald E. Lewis, published by Pittsfield Publishers in 1975.
Slater has been cited as an influence by other contemporary artists, including noted American collage artist Jonathan Talbot
Jonathan Talbot
Jonathan Talbot, is an American collage artist, painter, and printmaker. He also is the creator of an innovative collage technique that eliminates liquid adhesives from the collage assembly process...
and Sarah Bean.
Roderick Slater resides in Maine
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...
.