“Ken Slossberg paints in dualities and dichotomies; banality/lyricism, passivity/reflection, flatness/vibrancy, motion/stillness. An intentional use of space and color, light and shadow that create a subtle feeling of passive reflection has always appeared in his work. This passive reflection is created by the fact that he paints from photographs he has taken himself in his travels and everyday life. He studies the photographs and crops the images into a composition that best characterizes the scene and emotion he wishes to convey.

This process creates an indelible mood that is twice removed from reality, life, life captured, life painted.

Most of his compositions are comprised with characters that share a visual interaction, never with the spectator, but with one another. When one gazes at his paintings, the viewer is engaged with the central human figures’ visual attraction to other people or objects. Though his subject matter can be somewhat austere, his paintings become alive with texture and movement.

If we look carefully at his subjects, we find a subdued composition that is rich and vibrant with depth and warmth. His figures may appear passive, but Slossberg’s representations are vibrantly active and engaging.

His approach creates a poetic realism in all of his work.

Slossberg would do well placed among the artists Edward Hopper, David Hockney and Chuck Close. He plays on similar themes and tones, but infuses his own painterly sense of capturing time and space. Peopled with uniquely ordinary characters, he creates an extra-ordinary world of beauty and color.”

-Jyson McLean, Commercial/Film Director, and Friend