Initially influenced by the abstract expressionists, she adopted a more realistic approach to image-making in the 1960s. Like some of her peers, most notably Will Barnet and Alex Katz, she experimented with the possibilities of representing the human figure as a series of flattened and differentiated forms. Sloane drew and painted, but she is best known for her broad exploration of printmaking, which included silkscreen, lithography, etching monotype, cork prints, and various methods of electrostatic copier/heat transfer printing.
Her work has been shown across the United States, with exhibitions at the Hudson River Museum, New York, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, the California College of Arts and Crafts, California, and a retrospective at the Las Vegas Art Museum in 2004. Sloane passed away in 2009 at her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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