Roderick Slater
{{Short description|American artist (1937–2019)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Roderick W. Slater
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1937|4|24}}
| birth_place = Goodrich, Michigan
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|06|25|1937|4|24}}
| death_place = Lexington, Virginia
| nationality = American
| occupation = Artist
| years_active = 1970–2019
| known_for = Collage
}}
Roderick W. Slater (April 24, 1937 – June 25, 2019) was an American artist. His works include paintings, etchings, drypoints, and collographs and collages. He is best known for mixed media works combining painting and collage. Slater's collages, composed on rectilinear grids, often include three-dimensional components and fragments of antique paper.
Early life
Born in Goodrich, Michigan, Slater studied art at the National Academy of Design School of Art in New York City.
Work
Two works by Roderick Slater are included in the collection of the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine.{{cite web|url=http://collections.portlandmuseum.org|title=Portland Museum of Art website|website=Collections.portlandmuseum.org|access-date=14 August 2019}} Galleries which have exhibited Slater works include the Ann Jacobs Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, Dryden Galleries, Providence, Rhode Island, Plum Gallery{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/12/16/art-for-givings-sake-original-works-for-the-holidays/6739dd94-a198-4b6f-8d23-87c86af237ed/|title=Art for Giving's Sake: Original Works for the Holidays|date=December 16, 1978|website=Washingtonpost.com}} in Kensington, Maryland, and Frost Gully Gallery in Maine. Slater's works have also been sold by auction houses such as Christie's in New York City (August 9, 2005),{{cite web|url=http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/roderick-slater-b.-1937-1-c-c7tlx0u3ur|title=Roderick Slater (born 1937)|website=Artfact.com|access-date=21 June 2016}} Skinner Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts (May 15, 2009), Luper Auctions, Richmond, Virginia, and Julia Auctions in Fairfield, Maine.{{cite web|url=http://www.proxibid.com/asp/CatalogPrint.asp?aid=18495|title=ESTATE, ART, COIN & FIREARM AUCTION; by Luper Auction Galleries, Inc.|website=Proxibid.com|access-date=28 October 2021}}{{cite web|url=http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/Search_Repeat.aspx?searchtype=AUCTION_RECORDS&artist=11170668|title=Roderick Slater – Auction results – Artist auction records|website=Askart.com|access-date=21 June 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.arcadja.com/auctions/en/roderick_slater/artist/357064/|title=Prices and estimates of works Slater Roderick|website=Arcadja.com|access-date=21 June 2016}} Slater's work Mnemonic Device was included in Paste and Pixels, a 2001 exhibition at Core Gallery in New Paltz, NY.{{cite web|url=http://www.pasteandpixels.com|title=Paste and Pixels|website=Pasteandpixels.com|access-date=21 June 2016}}
Most recently, Roderick Slater had a two-person show at the Staunton Augusta Art Center in Staunton, VA with his protégée Sarah Bean. The show was titled "Promises We Make To Ourselves: A 15 year dialogue between mentor and student" {{cite web|url=http://saartcenter.org/2014/01/05/current-exhibit-promises-we-make-ourselves-a-15-year-dialogue-between-mentor-and-student/|title=Exhibit: Promises We Make to Ourselves, a 15-year dialogue between mentor and student. – Staunton Augusta Art Center | Art Classes & Exhibits|website=Saartcenter.org|access-date=21 June 2016}}
A series of black and white drawings by Roderick Slater illustrates the book
Up Here in Maine by Gerald E. Lewis, published by Pittsfield Publishers in 1975.
Slater has been cited as an influence by other contemporary artists, including noted American collage artists Jonathan Talbot{{cite web|url=http://www.talbot1.com/otheractivities/rodslater.htm|title=Jonathan Talbot / Rod Slater|website=Talbot1.com|access-date=21 June 2016}} and Sarah Bean.{{Cite web|url=http://www.artandpoems.com/|title=Custom Book Carvings by Sarah Bean White|website=Art And Poems Of Sarah Bean White}}
Death
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Category:American collage artists
Category:American male painters