Artist’s StatementOver the last few years drawing has become my primary activity. The drawings that make up this exhibition are not sketches or preparatory studies. They are seen as fully realized works and are intended to stand alone as such. The directness and the rapid change that drawing allows answers my current expressive needs more clearly than painting. All the drawings are worked from life over long periods. There are three sources behind the work. One is nature, or the motif; either the figure or the landscape. The second is the history of art, the reservoir of images from the past that I love and have become part of my consciousness. The third is the inner life of the imagination. Kim Sloane lives and works in New York City, where he is the Chairperson of the Foundation Art program at the Pratt Institute, New York City. Education 1991-1993 Parsons School of Design, New York; Master of Fine Arts, Painting1974-1977 Yale University, New Haven, CT Grants and Awards1991-1992 Helena Rubenstein Foundation Scholarship1992 The Ingram Merrill Foundation Award2002 Mikhail and Ekateryna Shatalov Prize and the Samuel F. B. Morse Medal 177th Annual Invitational Exhibition of the National Academy of Design Museum, New York, Prize for Drawing2008 Mikhail and Ekateryna Shatalov Prize 183 Annual Invitational Exhibition, National Academy of Design Museum, New York,Prize for Drawing