Jeanette Pasin Sloan
Birth Date: 1946

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Jeanette Pasin Sloan was born, raised and still lives in Chicago. Sloan has long been known as a major but specialized artist, dealing almost exclusively with still life. Her most familiar images are of silver and other highly reflective objects of the domestic interior. These still life subjects do not refer to the homely, the everyday or the strictly utilitarian things one might fine in every home, but rather emphasize the “good’ servicing trays or fruit bowls, the things one would receive as wedding presents or used primarily “when company comes” or some other special occasion. Sloan reflects upon her artistic past and her personal history as a woman and asserts a new acceptance and understanding of who she is where she is and with what personal and artist issues she is concerned. The perfection and reflective quality of Sloan’s still life and set-ups have always had metaphysical dimensions. Their reflective quality, the regularity of their geometric forms and the like which have to do, as the artist has made clear in various statements, with confronting the reality of her situation as an artist in a domestic situation, as a woman with children, with a family and a family history. Maybe the best statement that explains Sloan’s work comes from her. “When I began creating in my early twenties, I was a newlywed wife and a first time mother. As I moved into a new house, my instinct was to arrange objects, creating a home. At the same time, I began to compose a life out of a network of relationships. Naturally, my artwork also struggled to compose, to arrange, to create order and beauty. The objects I used were domestic things familiar to me and I was able to arrange them formally so that their relationships were controlled, harmonious and ordered. Over the next twenty years of my life I experienced marriage, motherhood, divorce, and the loss of loved ones. I learned that relationships are complicated and always changing – that life must be recomposed continuously, day-by-day. My work has grown to express these issues. However, my belief is that these individual issues are universal – that looking at the ways we compose our lives is both essential and fulfilling." When you are looking at this piece you have to remind yourself that this is just simply a drawing - or is it?