ABOUT SLATER SOUSLEY
Breaking form down into rhythm and pattern, while working quickly to capture light, Slater Sousley manages to achieve a vibrant serenity in his paintings. The way something emerges from the background of foliage questions how one technically and mentally renders an image. Painted against the setting sun, in the woods that Sousley knows from his childhood, the works reveal themselves as a merger of plein air painting and recitations of his past. His art aims to capture the ephemerality of a moment.
Slater Sousley received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Painting and his MFA in Art from Eastern Illinois University. Sousley lives and works out of Kansas City, Missouri.
EXHIBITIONS
2018 | Still Moments
PRESS
2018 | F Newsmagazine, "Still Moments" at Matthew Rachman: An Ode to Modern Still Life
2018 | Chicago Pipeline, 8 Things to Do in The Wicker Park Area
Photograph courtesy of the artist
WORK
2017
acrylic on canvas
55 1/16” h x 41 1/16” w x 1 ¾” d
pictured with the Arthur Umanoff 3000 series bench
2017
acrylic on canvas
45 15/16” h x 42" w x 1 ¼” d
(1) pictured with Harvey Probber slipper chairs, “Lurch” by Bailey Fontaine and Loet Vanderveen’s bronze baboon sculptures
(2) pictured with DCM chairs by Charles and Ray Eames and Hans Wegner for Fritz Hansen dining table
