Ms. Slavin is so talented and her paintings were so striking during the decade of the 1980's, it was difficult to select six from the thirty presented at artnet's Artist Works Catalogues. I chose these six.

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To see my previous OEN article with Arlene Slavin's art in public places, click here.

The following images of Arlene Slavin's paintings created in the 1980's illustrate abundantly where talent and perfection intersect. That decade was a tumultuous one in American art, and whereas Ms. Slavin's geometrical expressionist works of the 70's were repetitive, her paintings from the 1980's are alive with change, and with animals, and the environment, and compositions born of her work in the preceding decade.*

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*All the images are courtesy of artnet's Artist Works Catalogues. See here, where it says: “artnet offers these catalogues free to the public as an educational resource. Simply click on an individual artist's image to begin, and check back often to browse new catalogues.”

Authors Bio:
I have a law degree (Stanford, 66') but have never practiced. Instead, from 1967 through 1977, I tried to contribute to the revolution in America. As unsuccessful as everyone else over that decade, in 1978 I went to work for the U.S. Forest Service in San Francisco as a Clerk-Typist, GS-4. I was active in the USFS's union for several years, including a brief stint as editor of The Forest Service Monitor, the nationwide voice of the Forest Service in the National Federation of Federal Employees. Howsoever, I now believe my most important contribution while editor of the F.S.M. was bringing to the attention of F.S. employees the fact that the Black-Footed Ferret was not extinct; one had been found in 1980 on a national forest in the Colorado. In 2001 I retired from the USFS after attaining the age of 60 with 23 years of service. Stanford University was evidently unimpressed with my efforts to make USFS investigative reports of tort claim incidents available to tort claimants (ie, "the public"), alleging the negligence of a F.S. employee acting in the scope of his/her duties caused their damages, under the Freedom of Information Act. Oh well. What'cha gonna do?