Stan Slutsky

     Stan Slutsky was born in 1941 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he studied drafting, design, and architecture. In 1963, he attended Youngstown University in Ohio and later went on to study at Carnegie Mellon University. Being mostly self-taught and too energized for workshops, he became uncomfortable in structured academic environments. He began to experiment freely with bold colorful optical illusions and quickly became recognized in the fine art community. In 1990, Slutsky was nominated to the Florida Arts Hall of Fame.

     Slutsky creates his visions by applying several coats of acrylic paint, free hand, continually perfecting them until they appear straight to the eye. After the creation of his initial sketch, Slutsky does not use any pencils, rulers, straight edges, measurements, mathematics, tape or airbrush to complete his work. His works are clean hard-edged lines, subtle color gradations, and systematic chromatic harmonics. He feels that the viewer’s eye intensifies the optical illusion of three-dimensional space. Stan Slutsky’s finished paintings are a juxtaposition of ordered, related forms, done in carefully selected hues and tints, which communicate to the minds eye a distinct image at first and then, a second later, an exact opposite conception. Slutsky believes that creating art is a very cerebral activity and feels that "artistic inspiration is not a place to be or arrive at, but more an activity on a path. It is a spiritual endeavor."