Dennis Sloan

Dennis Sloan Dennis Sloan PO Box 7262 Missoula, MT 59807 Phone: 406-258-5432 Contact: Send Email Painting is my life. As a Montana native, my oils reflect the infinitive variety of color and mood as well as the vastness of the sky and landscapes in my environment. I am dedicated to a responsibility to incorporate my culture and expansiveness of a rural context in my work; I harmonize color and form to create energy and incite the emotion of this space. Building a framework of form, color harmonies, color gradations and textures, I aspire to involve the viewer in the synthesis of these elements, the elements from which I construct my personal vision. Many of my works are figure-ground compositions with a deliberate ambiguity of spatial arrangement. The images are intended to create a sensation on canvas which goes beyond the everyday experience of seeing; objects advance or recede within the painted space. I invite the viewer into another dimension. My apprenticeship with my father, a painter who learned his trade at the Haskell Indian Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, have given me clarity of vision and spiritual insight. Early in life, I was fortunate to spend time with my grandmother, a classical pianist, who radiated an appreciation for music. The powerful impact of music spurred my studies of art history. A solid knowledge and understanding of the history of art is a major consideration in my contemporary painting. I am heavily influenced by the Impressionists Van Gogh and Monet for color; Daumier and Degas for composition and impact; and the abstract expressionists Jackson Pollack, Phillip Guston, and William DeKooning for the exclamation in my art.

Listed Artwork:   (Click on one to view more information about that artwork) Montana Venus #3 Montana Venus #4 Montana Frieze #1 Montana Frieze #2 Montana Frieze #3 Montana Venus #1 Millenium Crows #4 Nastradomas The Sax Man Montana Venus #5 Montana Venus #6 Montana Venus #2 Flathead Interiors Fast Song The Magician Moon Light Sonata Electric Frieze #40 Crows #10 Crows #14 Transcendence #17 Transcendence #18 Transcendence #16 Night Flight Flight Transcendence #19 Midnight Cowboy Night Flight #1 Transcendence #25 Night Flight #2