DUANE SLICK
~New Arias for a Coyote Opera~
August 2025
2025
monotypes with hand dyeing
22 x 30 inches
(Printed at Matrix Press, Missoula, MT)
~New Arias for a Coyote Opera~
August 2025
2025
monotypes with hand dyeing
22 x 30 inches
(Printed at Matrix Press, Missoula, MT)
In this series of prints I imagined the stained paper as a backdrop for an unfolding narrative that alludes to a moment of drama or consequence. In these arias the coyote, the beaver, the snake, the bat, the turtle, the rabbit and eagle with smaller birds coexist on a dream like stage acting out the heroic effort of survival. - Duane Slick
Duane Slick (b. 1961, Waterloo, IA) has exhibited widely, including Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA; University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls; Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI; Neilson Gallery, Boston, MA; Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA; and Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL. He has received numerous grants and fellowships, including an Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Art; a Fellowship at the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM; a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant; a Rockefeller Foundation Grant; and a Robert Motherwell Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. His work is the collections of The National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; DeCordova Sculpture Garden and Museum, Lincoln, MA; the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; and the C.N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis. Since 1995 he has been Professor of Painting and Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. Slick received a BFA from the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Cedar Falls, IA and an MFA from the University of California-Davis, Davis, CA.