ERIC SLAYTON
169 VT ROUTE 100 NORTH
Wilmington Vermont 05363
T. 631 . 935 . 3135
PRESS . jennifer@ericslayton.com
REPRESENTATION AND SHOWROOMS
GOOD DESIGN | HAMPTONS 2022
GARDE LA and DALLAS 2022
HOLLY HUNT 7 locations 2010 - PRESENT
ROOM NEW YORK 2010 - PRESENT
WEXLER GALLERY, PHILADELPHIA 2017 - PRESENT
NES CREATIVE NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES 2016 - 2019
Russell Steele INT EAST HAMPTON. NY 2006 - PRESENT
ABC HOME NEW YORK 2007 - 2012
CJ PETERS INTERIORS NEW YORK 2007 - 2009
HB HOME WESTPORT . CT 2008 - 2010
FORD & CHING LOS ANGELES 2009 - 2011
MECOX GARDENS SOUTHAMPTON . NY 2009 - 2013
CALYPSO HOME INTERNATIONAL 2010 - 2012
EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS
SCOPE ART FAIR, MIAMI 2022
COLLECTIVE DESIGN, NEW YORK 2017 - 2018
Salon ART AND DESIGN, nyc 2017
CYNTHIA REEVES GALLERY / MASS MOCA 2016
CYNTHIA REEVES GALLERY / ART MIAMI 2016
ICFF . NYC 2016
X CONTEMPORARY, Miami FL 2015
CYNTHIA REEVES GALLERY / LONDON ART FAIR 2015
SARA NIGHTINGALE GALLERY, SAG HARBOR NY 2015
WANTED DESIGN NYC 2014 INTERNATIONAL CONT FURN FAIR 2008 - 2013
GLORIA NAFTALI GALLERY NYC 2013
GALERIE JOSEPH / PARIS DESIGN WEEK 2013
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST SHOW NYC 2012
A + D MUSEUM LOS ANGELES. CA 2012
DWELL ON DESIGN LOS ANGELES. CA 2009
BRONX RIVER ART CENTER BRONK, NY 2007
PUBLICATIONS
JENNIFER POST MODERN 2019
LUXE INTERIOR DESIGN 2016 - 2019
OBJEKT - GERMAN 2017
DWELL MAGAZINE 2017
RUM ID 2016
MAGAZINE 2016
DWELL MAGAZINE 2016
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST 2016
SURFACE MAGAZINE 2016
HUFFINGTON POST 2016
ICON 2016
WALL STREET JORNAL MAGAZINE 2016
THE WORK MAGAZINE 2016
INTERIORS 2015
CONNECTICUT COTTAGES AND GARDENS 2008
ARCHITECTS NEWSPAPER 2008
OBJEKT MAGAZINE 2008
Merging Art and Nature
FOR a good part of seventeen years, Eric has been immersed in formulating and fabricating his ideas and experimenting with a disciplined assortment of noble materials. That list of ingredients has morphed over the years to include repurposed timbers and aged wooden barn siding, patina’d sheets of metals and mirror polished metal alloys, casting from molten aluminum, Raku fired ceramics, off the shelf industrial engineered products such as concrete, saw cut blocks of stone, and animal hide.
Originally exploring his ideas from a studio in Shelter Island, and then later in Brooklyn, he more recently has moved back to Vermont to live and create. Each of his individual works, as well as the esteemed collections, highlight the richness of tones and textures embedded in his discerning material pallet.
A masters degree in, and general life passion for, the natural sciences, while moved by the Japanese ethos of Wabi-Sabi, combine to articulate the organic modernist approach he takes in the formation of his works. From concept to form to realization and patina. Eric celebrates the beauty of imperfection, and encourages the natural time-marinating created during the aging process. Unrefined surfaces contained within percipient proportions, merged with a keen understanding of bio-centric processes, accurately describe the path and practice taken.
The angular weight of his sculptural monoliths, and signature designs, have been notably inspired by the sky-scrapper architectural shapes that dominate horizons of this geological epoch known as the Anthropocean. But for him, nature is the true force in the end, so all works are woven together knowing that the reclamation forces of nature are guaranteed.
Eric’s works have been celebrated in both private and public spaces and collections since the early Ots. He is very grateful for the opportunity to have an audience for his ideas. Where the focus has always been utmost on inspiration and creation, for personal challenge, and the resulting inner warmth it generates. Eric is moved that his works also provide a curiosity, joy and delight for others.
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