Last Thursday night, The Peaceable Kingdom went on exhibit at Naples' Gardner Colby Gallery in the Third Street South shopping district.
This marks Sloan's sixth one-man show at Gardner Colby Gallery, and it's not just owner Nancy Winch and Gallery Director Pamela Campe who keep inviting him back. Sloan enjoys a coterie of repeat patrons who clamor for the magical realist's return each year with a new line-up of regal animals for them to admire and acquire. Winch and Campe are much too genteel to disappoint.
Overall, Sloan has nearly 30 solo exhibitions to his credit. Sloan's resume also includes numerous group shows, including Magic Realism: A New Generation at Sangre de Cristo Arts Center in Pueblo, Colorado.
His award-winning work can be found in numerous public collections including The Tampa Museum of Art, The Phoenix Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Sante Fe, New Mexico, Chase Manhattan Bank, Hallmark Corp., McDonalds Corp, Princess Cruise Lines, the University of California and the Tucson Museum of Art. His work also hangs in the Four Seasons Hotel in Scottsdale, the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas and the St. Regis Hotel in Dana Point, California.
Sloan's work was selected as the cover for both the January 2008 and January 2009 issues of American Art Collector magazine, and his last two exhibitions at Gardner Colby have been featured in two subsequent editions of the magazine (January, 2011 (vol. 63) and January, 2012 (vol. 75)).
New American Paintings, Number 36, published by Open Studios Press, also includes his work, and Sloan has been featured in Review, Art Talk and Southwest Art publications.
While Sloan humbly accepts such accolades, he nonetheless frets like the director of an animal rescue shelter about finding appropriate places for his regal animals to live. "Larger works are harder to place," he remarked on Thursday night with an anxious toward A Shared Feast (left), a smart, complex piece packed with cooked seafood and cut fruit enticingly laid out on a plain wood table. At three feet tall and six feet in width, it is by far his largest offering of the 2012 season.
But he needn't have concerned himself. The meticulously-wrought acrylic has already been spoken for, as have a number of the 16 paintings Sloan brought from Sante Fe for this year's show.
But there are still members of Sloan's Peaceable Kingdom who are looking for good homes.
For more information about the exhibit or the artist, please call 239-403-7787 or email the gallery at art@gardnercolbygallery.com. Gardner Colby Gallery is located at 386 Broad Avenue South in Naples on the boulevard that is affectionately known as "Gallery Row."
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