Portobello Road
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
40" x 40"

Portobello Road

Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
40" x 40"

Meadow
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
30" x 50"

Meadow

Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
30" x 50"

Cherry Blossom
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
22" x 34"
Sold

Cherry Blossom

Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
22" x 34"
Sold

Kiki Slaughter

Degrees of Abstraction
September 28 - October 18, 2007

Reception: Thursday October 4, 2007 6-8 PM

Press Release

New York-based artist Kiki Slaughter records her impressions of personally significant places through the use of paints that she scrapes, pours, or layers on canvas with a determined focus on the textural quality. Her works are entirely abstract yet maintain subtle characteristics of the muse for which she entitles each painting. Slaughter navigates effortlessly between airy, almost atmospheric abstractions and robust compositions with intensely bold hues. In explaining her artwork she simply states, “My purpose is to interpret the world through the use of color and texture.” Layering is very important to Slaughter, not only as a painterly device but also as a metaphor for time.

Upon discovering interior paint from the previous inhabitants of a richly historical residence in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she used to reside, Slaughter chose to explore her connection to them by including the paints in her work. The subsequent paintings, entitled “The 2U Series: If These Walls Could Talk” were shown in Charlottesville and attended by women who formerly lived there and painted the rooms. Kiki Slaughter currently lives and works in New York City.

Invitation to the exhibition | View the catalog page

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Artists in this exhibition

Ashley Bullard | Vanessa Bistrain | Adrian Lascom | Kiki Slaughter | Dale Oftedal