Even though Sandi Slone has often worked with oversized brushes — an early series of abstract paintings made with large brooms established her reputation as a young painter — she long has had a predilection for intimate gestures and unexpected incidents that signal everything—from the materiality of color that impacts the sensuality of landscape memory and the body — to the current state of our fraught planet. While Slone does not limit herself to any one technique or style there has always been a calligraphic touch that engages the languages of contemporary abstraction as deeply as her sweeping swaths of transparent pours do: "I still think abstract painting is a world unto itself, a parallel universe infinitely unknown—a representation of its complexity— not unlike the beauty of music, mathematics and nature’s material spirit.”
Slone’s Solo exhibitions in New York were represented by Acquavella Galleries in the 1970s and ‘80s. Her paintings have since been the subject of over 40 Solo exhibitions and 135 group shows in the US and internationally. Many are in permanent museum collections here and abroad that include the Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona ; Katzen Art Museum, American University, Washington DC; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University Wahtam Mass; Alberta Art Museum, Edmonton Canada; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, NH ; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, Queen’s University, Ontario; International Artists Museum Lodz, Poland; New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge University, UK; the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio; Frost Art Museum, Florida International Univsity; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK; Harvard University, Cambridge MA; Davis Museum of Art, Wellesley College; the De Menil Family Trust, Paris—among other private and museum collections
Recent gallery and museum exhibitions include “Five Propositions” Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Oct 2019-May 2020); “11 Women of Sprit” Salon Zürcher NYC, March 2020, (Image of Slone’s painting was featured with the exhibition review in the New York Times); “Summertime” Tibor deNagy Gallery NYC (2018); “Expanding Abstraction”, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (2018); George and Jôrgen gallery, London UK; “MULTILAYER Vision” Mörgner Museum, Soëst Germany (Oct 2020-June 2021) traveling in Germany; “Material/Immaterial” Kosciuszko Foundation, NYC (Oct 2021) reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail (Oct 2021); “Object Matters“ Caldwell Gallery, Hudson NY (Oct -Dec 2023); “100 W0MAN Of SPIRIT” Zürcher Gallery, NYC (July 2024)
Slone’s Solo Exhibitions and paintings have been reviewed in The New York Times; The Boston Globe; The Washington Post; Arts Magazine; Artforum; Art In America; ARTnews, ARTnet; Flash Art; Architectural Digest; The London Guardian; Art New England; The Hudson Review; Partisan Review; ARTcritical; Interview Magazine; El Païs, Barcelona Spain; Art International, NY; The Brooklyn Rail; Hyperallergic; the Warsaw Gazeta and others
Sandi Slone is Professor Emerita of Boston Museum of Fine Arts School/Tufts University(1975—2006). She has served as faculty in Harvard University’s department of Visual and Environmental Studies, and in the MA program School of Visual Arts, NY. Born in Boston, she has a degree in Art History from Wellesley College and a 5th year diploma from School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University. Slone has been in numerous museum exhibitions including two Corcoran Museum of Contemporary American Painting Biennials (1977 and 1998) and a solo show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, (ICA) Boston. She received a Ford Foundation Fellowship ; she was awarded travel-research grants from the Clarissa Bartlett foundation and invited to three residencies from the Triangle Arts Association, among other honors — including a Santa Fe Art Institute award and a nomination to American Institute of Arts and Letters . Sandi Slone is a Founding Board Member of ART OMI international artists residency, NY (1992—Present). She has lived and worked in New York City since 1985