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Jeanette Pasin Sloan focuses on the intimate details of domestic life, and is a technical master across painting and printing mediums. Her father was an Italian immigrant who founded Radio Flyer wagons in the US, and he often took her back to Europe to see the great artworks of history, which kindled her early passion for art and art history. Pasin Sloan later earned an MFA from the University of Chicago in art history, where her passion for replicating and extending the techniques of old master painters was born.

Jeanette Pasin Sloan taught herself to paint as a young mother in a small apartment, putting her children to bed early so she could paint at the kitchen table studio. She obsessively painted the reflective surfaces of her kitchen: a chrome toaster, silver teacups, and glass plates. She sees these everyday objects as something we all share and know intimately. Pasin Sloan creates the most precise, exquisitely beautiful composition from these objects, analogous to striving for possibility and excellence in our own daily lives. After mastering oil and watercolor, the artist created a series of fantastic lithographs with Landfall Press.