"With such stealth, the impact proves that to
conceptually intrigue the mind, an image must often formally comfort and
soothe in order to relax the eyes while the meaning of the image sneaks
in to caress the senses. In fact, it is this ingenuity that merits the most
attention. These paintings, which offer seemingly innocuous compositions,
upon closer inspection not only bring sensuous delight; they also reveal
the enigmatic peculiarity of metamorphosis."
-- Review Magazine
"Under Sloan's bravura decoration, there is a
concern for cosmic things…an impressive San Francisco debut."
-- San Francisco Examiner
"These paintings hold the same spirit of wonder
that we have when splitting open the desiccated surface of a pomegranate
to find the moist crimson jewels inside. Sloan is a desert artist who finds
nothing barren in the landscape he sees."
-- The Arizona Daily Star
"His painting techniques follow those of European
masters, with thinly applied pigment, smooth brushwork, attention to detail,
and fine finish of surface. Sloan is competent in his painting technique
and in his compositional arrangements. His academic studies include close
scrutiny of the Old Masters, yet departs from their accomplishment in his
use of acrylic paints, achieving a sense of luminosity often missing in
his selected medium."
-- New Orleans Art Review
"Smeared with rococo golds and turquoise patinas, his work refers to
antiquity and the past, swept into the empty seas of the future. Lush and
compelling, these are riveting works - meditations on our future."
-- The Arizona Daily Star
"There is no sign in Sloan's work of the disaffected
cynicism which seems to be art's major mode these days."
-- San Francisco Sentinel
"Sloan paints the psychic as well as physical contours of the local
landscape, often symbolically. Revealing both depth and luminosity, they
recall the tropical landscapes of American Romantics like Martin Johnson
Heade and Frederick Church - painters who were not merely masters of oil
on canvas, but lyric poets of light and space as well."
-- New Orleans Gambit
"The most striking detail that first becomes
apparent in Sloan's paintings is the rich imagery present in each painting.
Each of Sloan's works seems to carry a common language of images, and each
of these is infused with meaning - a meaning derived inherently in the object
and intentionally by Sloan."
-- Mesa Tribune
"What does it mean to be a true man? A whole
man? And what does the journey to become one require? The answers to those
questions seem utterly mysterious, and yet Kevin Sloan's paintings, so courageously
self-revealing, so fundamentally honest, reveal one man's truth."
