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Artist
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Jill Slaymaker
| Ms. Slaymaker's paintings explore the relationship between nature and modern man by overlaying graphic images from science, technology, architecture and mathematics on idyllic nature scenes. Based on ideas that are related to Eastern philosophy, the works have been described by the art historian Robert Rosenblum as part of the recent "Neo-Sublime" and "Neo-Romantic Landscape" movements. The artist's reverence for nature is particularly apparent in the vast skies she paints, intended to bring to mind mysteries of the unknown: death, God, the heavens, as well as a sense that "nature is greater and more powerful than we mere humans." |