Eva Slater, Miriam Slater and Erin Slater Carmean - Family of artists

It is all in the family - three of the Poetic Eye's artists, Eva Slater,  daughter Miriam Slater and grand daughter Erin Slater Carmean all incorporate interlocked triangles and diamond forms in their art, but in a manner that is unique to each artist. The paintings by Eva Slater are done with oil paints on panel in the 1950's and 60's. The table and letter box (done in lacquer and acrylic on wood in the 1980's) are by Miriam Slater and the zen mandalas (done in ink pen on paper in the late 2000's) are by Erin Carmean.

Eva Slater 1922-2011

Hard-Edge artist Eva Slater has recently died in Santa Barbara, CA, after a long illness. She was a pivotal player in the Hard-Edge art movement and a highly regarded scholar in the world of Native American arts.  To learn more about her life's work, visit her website and blog at evaslater.com.

Poetic Eye - Eva Slater recent painting sales

There has a renewed interest in Eva Slater's work with brisker sales here in the gallery in 2011. The spare, elegant forest painting just sold to a Los Angeles collector who also collects the work of Harry Carmean and the hard-edge master Lorser Feitelson (Feitelson was also a friend of Slater's in the 1950's and 60's).

Feitelson Boulder painting sold

This stunning boulder painting by Hard-edge artist Lorser Feitelson recently sold through the Poetic Eye Gallery to a collector of Hard-Edge and Minimalist California art.

Eva Slater Hard-edge artist

Eva Slater whom this gallery exclusively represents, was a core member of the Hard-edge art movement that took place in the 1950's and 60's.

She was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922 and studied art there until the outbreak of WWII. After the war she moved to the United States where she worked as a fashion illustrator in New York City. After meeting her husband, John Slater, they moved to Los Angeles, California, and it was there that she met Harry Carmean, Lorser Feitelson and Feitelson's wife, Helen Lundeburg. Feitelson was the founder of the Hard-edge art movement which begun in the 1950's in Los Angeles.

Slater's hard edge paintings are characterized by smooth, meticulously painted surfaces, spare, simplified form and elegant, subtle color schemes, reminiscent of Helen Lundeburg. Although she was adept at drawing the figure she preferred painting landscape and astronomical subjects, as well as creating purely abstract works. Her unique contribution to the Hard-edge movement was the use of intricate small triangles that would flow across the painting in irregular patterns. She referred to them as being much like "cells" which interlocked and helped to define the structure of the painting. The triangles concept was abandoned in the early sixties and she went on to make a small number of pure hard edge landscapes with large areas of flat color. She stopped painting in the late 1960's and became a scholar and collector of American Indian bastetry, writing the book Panamint Shoshone Baskety, an American Art Form. (available through this gallery)

For more information and photos about Eva Slater visit evaslater.com and the Eva Slater blog.