Jeff Bridges purchases another Harry Carmean painting

Jeff and Susan Bridges have been fans of Harry Carmean's for twenty years, a relationship which began back when they met in Los Angeles in the late 1980's. Bridges, (who, like Harry Carmean now lives in Santa Barbara) owns a number of his paintings (as well as some of Miriam Slater's work) and has just purchased another oil painting with a family theme to celebrate the birth of their grandchild.

About Miriam Slater

Miriam Slater (1952-) Born in Los Angeles, California studied painting at California State University Fullerton, graduating in 1975. From 1978-9 she received several California Arts Council Artist in Residence grants during which she taught art and mural making at all levels throughout the public school system. In 1979, she attended Art Center College of Design and intensively studied drawing and painting with Harry Carmean, whom she later married. Aside from her paintings, she is also known for a variety of painted objects including furniture, letter boxes, musical instruments, teacups and jewelry.

Slater is the daughter of Eva Slater, a Hard Edge artist and grew up surrounded by lots of art, including that of Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeburg (who are also periodically carried in this gallery). Slater's work is in a number of prominent collections including that of Jack Nicholson, Henry Kissenger, Quincy Jones, Brooke Astor, Jeff Bridges, Anjelica Huston, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, the Los Angeles County Art Museum and Experience Music Project in Seattle. To learn more about Miriam Slater visit miriamslater.com and the Miriam Slater blog.

Welcome to the Poetic Eye Gallery!

Welcome to The Poetice Eye online art gallery which carries the work of figurative artists Harry Carmean and Miriam Slater, Hard-edge artist Eva Slater as well as other artists. After three successful years on ebay it was time for the Poetic Eye to establish to its own site online. The ebay gallery will continue to sell art at its reasonable rates because which makes original works of art by top notch artists accessible to artists and students who have limited resources. The Poetic Eye will offer a more comprehensive selection of artworks in a wider price range.

This gallery's goal is to reach our global audience through the internet rather than the traditional gallery system. The internet appears to be the way of the future so that is where we are focusing our energy. Most of the art world today, (from my perspective) has tended to acknowledge mediocre, trendy and untalented artists and favor that which is fashionable and familiar resulting in what can be best described as an "unsatisfying experience" for the art connosseur.

If you are looking for unusual art that has stunning technique, comes from the heart, is original, incorporates aesthetic principles, and that will stand the test of time, then you have come to the right place. The artists we represent are top notch and different from anything you will see anywhere else in the contemporary art world. This blog will explain in depth some of the concepts and art principles used by the artists, elaborate on the art processand also give insights how the artists think through detailed biographies.