527 Madison Avenue is pleased to announce an exhibition of mixed media works by Liz Sloan in the Lobby Gallery from April 24 – August 23, 2024. Located at 54th Street and Madison Avenue, an opening reception will be held on Wednesday, May 15 from 5–7 PM, and the show is open to the public 9 AM – 5 PM, Monday through Friday. This will be the twenty-eighth exhibition in 527 Madison’s ongoing program showcasing noteworthy emerging and mid-career artists, organized by Jay Grimm Art Advisory.
Sloan’s playful sculptural works evoke drawings that have jumped off the page, with bold gestural brushstrokes that intertwine with her signature black and white ovals. The graphic linework and enlarged scale of these three-dimensional paintings recall the Pop Art movement of the 50s and 60s but hold a more personal or spiritual meaning to the artist. Sloan envisions these works as signatures––something by which a person can be distinctly identified––with the black and white ovals suggesting the universal human experience and our individual life paths taking the form of the colorful gestural lines which meander throughout the composition. In our modern world, mechanized and homogenized by technology, Sloan sees these works as “a call to action––announced out loud and in vivid color––against the non-color standardization of the universe, the vital importance of our personal signatures.”
Liz Sloan has been painting on and off for 40 years under the tutelage of Bruce Dorfman at the Art Students League of New York. She majored in fine arts at Colgate University, after which she ran a successful jewelry design business, and decided to return to painting full-time in 2015. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo presentations at Scope Art Fair in Miami, George Billis Gallery in New York, and most recently at Ginza Ippodo Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. She lives with her husband and two children in New York City and Southampton, New York.
For inquiries about the work, please contact Liz Sloan at lizsloan@lizsloanart.com. For more information about 527 Madison’s exhibitions, please contact Jay Grimm, who organizes the contemporary art program on behalf of 527 Madison at jgrimm@jaygrimm.com.
527 Madison Avenue is a boutique commercial office building located at the corner of 54th Street and Madison Avenue in New York City. Completed in 1986, it was designed by celebrated architectural firm FxCollaborative. The property has recently completed lobby and elevator upgrades and is owned by an affiliate of Mitsui Fudosan America, the US subsidiary of Japan's largest real estate company, Mitsui Fudosan Co., LTD.