ANDREA BLANCH You use gold a lot in your work. Gold leaf, gold marker, gold this, gold that. What's the attraction?
SLATER BRADLEY I use some silver too. But it's funny, nobody's really ever asked me that, and I sort of knew you were going to ask me that, and, well, growing up I did go to an Episcopalian school. A cathedral school in San Francisco, and the cathedral had a certain kind of imagery. I had that Catholic light. I use gold as a signifier of value. Gold and silver markers are permanent. Silver is more easily identifiable with the silver screen in cinema. Gold more of a sort of antiquated Visantium type of past era thing. Because it could border on being really vulgar.
Team Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007