RICHARD SLOAT, NA NA 1997 Richard Sloat was born in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1945 and currently lives in Manhattan. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania with Rackstaw Downes and the Art Students League with Roberto Delamonica. He has lectured in New York and California and was elected to the National Academy. He is a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) and is currently serves as SAGA's president. He has been in many shows in the United States and Asia. He has received many awards including the Joseph M. Kaveney Memorial Award at the Janet Turner National Print Competition, 1999; The Alfred D. Crimi Award at Audubon Artists, 1998; Purchase Prize at Broome Street Gallery Invitational, 1998; American Artist Award at Audubon Artists, 1996; and has twice won the Leo Meisner Prize at the National Academy of Design. Sloat is one of those rare artists who works his images in stages or in print terms, states. Often one of his prints might go through ten states before he finally gets to the final or published state. Because he might work on a plate over a period of many years, he will occasionally decide that it is finished and print a small edition. Later, he will rework the plate adding aquatint and then edition the plate in a later state. This is not to say that he is abusing the edition sizes. In an article that Sloat wrote, he discusses in detail one of his prints and how it goes from the early states to the final state with two distinct editions. One in state five is entitled El Passing and the final version Twilight El in states twelve and thirteen.

Richard Sloat Bridge, Boats, Brooklyn, 1976 Etching 18 x 24" For more information and to view more images, please visit www.richardsloat.com and www.oldprintshop.com.

Artist's Statement: To me to be an artist printmaker is to be in love with the graphic medium. Woodcut and etching have been my field of creation. Both these forms of prints exude a visual clarity and depth of feeling. We, in viewing them, are tied into the visual world at an essential level, an affirmation of our own life's journey. Both woodcut and etching are transformative mediums that force the artist and print viewer to see and think of the world in a specific, graphic way. One type of transformation takes place as the artist works out the image on the etching plate or woodcut block. The working must be indirect, essentially a drawing is changed into a print. One can think of a Durer drawing which is not the same as a Durer woodcut, or a Rembrandt drawing which is not the same as his etching. The image can be only revealed when a print is pulled. Even for an experienced printmaker, this can be a truly magical transformation. Another part of this transformation is that one must think in terms of the medium in viewing the outside world. A print necessitates a simplicity, the extracting of the essential, form, line, light and shadow. If done well this gives clarity to the phantasmagoria of viewing the world, and brings us to its visual essence, which is so satisfying, the world seen afresh. Beyond the lovely feeling of visual pleasure, if we are not cynics, we attain and confirm meaning to our being. Our world is larger, more interesting, of deeper feeling and yes even more beautiful. Selected and One-Person* Exhibitions The Gate Gallery, Taiwan, 1994 Lumen Winter Gallery, New Rochelle Library, 1997 Silvermine Guild, CT, 2000 Salmagundi Club, NYC, 2000 Arkansas State University, 2000 The National Academy of Design, 2000, 2003 Print Club of Albany, 2000 National Arts Club, NYC, 2000, 2002, 2003 Wood and Stone Gallery, Taiwan, 1990 * F.D.R. Gallery, NYC, 1993 * The Ottendorfer Library, NYC, 1996 * Port Washington Public Library, 1998 * The Old Print Shop, 1995*, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004* Howard Salon, Taiwan, 1998, 2001* Paul McCarron, 2001 New York Transit Museum, 2003 Museum of Modern Art, 2002 UBS Paine Weber Art Gallery, 2002 New York Historical Society, 2002 The Art Students League, 2001, 2002 Selected Permanent Collections British Museum, London City of Curtiba Print Museum, Cartiba, Brazil Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel National Museum of Fine Arts Hanoi, Vietnam Kanagawa Arts Foundation, Kanagawa, Japan National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan Fogg Museum, Harvard University Museum of the City of New York Boston Public Library New York Public Library Newark Public Library Duxbury Museum, Massachusetts Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University National Academy Museum, New York City Portland Art Museum Library of Congress For more information and to view more images, please visit www.oldprintshop.com.