Arlene Slavin

In the 1970s, Slavin developed a diagonal pencil grid system that served as the base for her geometric abstractions. Using layers of overlapping shimmering color woven into her grid, she painted many large scale works. Slavin's influences are in non-western art including: Japanese folding screens and woodblocks, Indian miniatures, Islamic tile work, and Byzantine mosaics. Slavin's work aligned with the Pattern and Decoration movement, showing in Pattern and Decoration group exhibitions, most recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California in With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972-1985.

Slavin has had a variety of solo and group exhibitions. Her work has been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial and other museums and galleries since the 1970s. In 2015, she installed six sculptures in Pratt Sculpture Park, Brooklyn, New York. The Bronx Museum showed her Intersection Sculpture Series in 2017. She has recently been exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California in With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972-1985.

She studied painting at Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1964.  She received a Masters of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in 1967.

Arlene Slavin (born 1942, Brooklyn, New York) is a painter, sculptor, and a print-maker whose practice also includes large-scale public art commissions. Slavin is a 1977 National Endowment for the Arts Grant recipient.

Arlene Eisenberg was born on October 26, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York to Sally and Louis Eisenberg.