CLEAR MIRROR PIECES
Sponge for Your Emotions, 2021, Poured acrylic and cut paper collaged on paper, framed, 49 x 36, $7500
BIO:
Joey Slaughter earned his BFA from Memphis College of Art and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Upon graduating Cranbrook, Slaughter was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. Slaughter has exhibited widely throughout the US in both solo and group exhibitions. He had his first solo museum show at Masur Museum of Art in 2022. He has also received the Louisiana Division of the Arts Career Enhancement Grant. His work has been published in Fresh Paint and in New American Paintings magazine four times. In 2017, Slaughter was awarded the Louisiana Prize from South Arts. He has attended Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Residency, Hambidge Residency in Georgia, Crosstown Arts Residency in Memphis and The Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency in New Orleans and most recently the Virginia Center for Creative Arts Residency. He currently lives in Ruston, LA, and is Associate Professor of Art at Louisiana Tech University. He is represented by Cole Pratt Gallery in New Orleans.
