Providence, Rhode Island

• Roderick Slater is an American artist born in Goodrich, Michigan in 1937. Slater studied art at the National Academy of Design School of Art in New York City. His works include paintings, etchings, drypoints, and colographs and collages. He is best known for mixed media works combining painting and collage. Slater’s collages, composed on rectilinear grids, often include three-dimensional components and fragments of antique paper.

• Galleries which have exhibited works by Roderick Slater include the Ann Jacobs Gallery in Atlanta, GA, Dryden Galleries, Providence, RI, Plum Gallery in Kensington, MD, and Frost Gully Gallery in Maine. Slater's works have also been sold by auction houses such as Christie's in New York (Aug. 9, 2005),[1] Skinner Inc. in Boston, MA (May 15, 2009), Luper Auctions, Richmond, VA, and Julia Auctions in Fairfield, ME. Slater's work Mnemonic Device was included in Paste and Pixels, a 2001 exhibition at Core Gallery in New Paltz, NY.

• A series of black and white drawings by Roderick Slater illustrates the book Up Here in Maine by Gerald E. Lewis, published by Pittsfield Publishers in 1975.

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• Rod Slater has been exhibited in galleries, museums, and outdoor shows in nearly every state of the Union, at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and across Europe and Asia. His works are well represented in both corporate and individual collections, and he has been cited as an influence by other contemporary artists, including noted American collage artist Jonathan Talbot. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Talbot) Slater does not own a computer and does not have a Web site or other presence on the Internet.

• There is not much documented information about Rod Slater. “He leads a quiet unconnected life somewhere in Maine”.

Roderick Slater, "Mnemonic Device" Traditional Collage, 197?, 31" x 23 3/4"

The next collage titled Liquid Value, is a large, 30” x 40”, unique piece. While most of Slater’s work tends toward academic themes (history, music, science, etc.), this collage is part of a limited series (c. 2006) that departs from those themes and illustrates different kinds of his favorite wines.

The primary images include portions of bottles from Chateau Margaux and Chateau Lafite Rothschild, the rocky soils of the Medoc, and cellared bottles. At the center is a bottle of red wine and clouds painted with acrylic, while the rest is collage/assemblage, with smaller compositions layered assemblage style around it. But the center also contains an intriguing surprise – although it is difficult to discern at a glance, the middle of the piece is a hinged door that opens to reveal another assemblage both on and inside the door, featuring a miniature wine bottle, maps of Percharmant, Monbazillac, the Bergeracois and the Rhone, and a variety of three-dimensional objects. The work is extremely detailed and must be seen first-hand to be appreciated. It requires no frame, incorporating a “visual frame” as part of the collage itself, in Slater’s distinctive style.

• rodslater.blogspot.com/2008/02/collages-artwork.html