Bret Slater: Regen - January 12 - February 6, 2021

Strife, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 22 1/8” x 1 7/8”.

Strife, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 22 1/8” x 1 7/8”.

The Liliana Bloch Gallery is pleased to present a new solo exhibition by Bret Slater entitled Regen. Regen is a return to directly utilizing the formal language of industrial objects, as well as the relationships between one object and another, from the vast metropolitan environment of New York City that surrounds the artist each day.

Slater states: when I see a form that captivates me, be it that of well-designed architecture, automobiles, machinery, jury-rigged structures, or makeshift objects, I feel truly connected to both myself as well as something bigger, or at least, something pertaining to a story or source that is other than mine, with its own history.

Bret Slater (born 1987 in Bronx, NY) received his BFA in Painting + Drawing from Purchase College, State University of New York in 2009. In 2011, he received his MFA in Studio Art from SMU in Dallas, Texas. Since then, he has had solo exhibitions in Chicago, Dallas, New York, Brussels, Zürich, and Portugal. Slater’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Germany, and works can be found in the public collections of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Erfurt, 2021, acrylic on linen, 7 ½” x 7 ¼” x 1”.

Erfurt, 2021, acrylic on linen, 7 ½” x 7 ¼” x 1”.

Taliesen Rose, 2021, acrylic on linen, 12 ½” x 6” x 1”.

Taliesen Rose, 2021, acrylic on linen, 12 ½” x 6” x 1”.

Johnny Posthumous, 2021, acrylic on linen, 13” x 16” x 1”.

Johnny Posthumous, 2021, acrylic on linen, 13” x 16” x 1”.

Road Gnome, 2021, acrylic on linen, 5 ½” x 7” x 1”.

Road Gnome, 2021, acrylic on linen, 5 ½” x 7” x 1”.

’58 Frank Against the Machine, 2020 - 2021, acrylic on linen, 7 ½” x 5 ½” 1”.

’58 Frank Against the Machine, 2020 - 2021, acrylic on linen, 7 ½” x 5 ½” 1”.

Exeter, 2021, acrylic on linen, 8”x 8” x 1”.

Exeter, 2021, acrylic on linen, 8”x 8” x 1”.

Jester’s Remorse, 2021, acrylic on linen, 8 ½” x 13” x 1”.

Jester’s Remorse, 2021, acrylic on linen, 8 ½” x 13” x 1”.

Filler of Qatar, 2021, acrylic on linen, 23” x 13” x 1 1/8”.

Filler of Qatar, 2021, acrylic on linen, 23” x 13” x 1 1/8”.

The Tennant, 2021, acrylic on linen, 36” x 23 ¼” x 1 ¾”.

The Tennant, 2021, acrylic on linen, 36” x 23 ¼” x 1 ¾”.