I love making art, all kinds, and have been exploring art forms for many decades.    Watercolors were my preferred medium until the mid 90’s  when I started playing with heated plastics.    My medium … a pigmented plastic I call Touleen.    The art process … hotmelt glue machines I invented and sold around the world to seal boxes and assemble products.     Touleen is melted (400F) and pumped thru a heated hose and then into a handgun.   Pulling the trigger it squirts out of a nozzle as a very hot colored stream.     Shoot it on paper, canvas, plastic  and see what happens.     Use it with other art materials like watercolors and beautiful things happen… new colorful deposits, whirling shapes and rich, deep buildups.      That handgun has become my artist’s brush.      These yellow hotmelt machines are my pallet and each one is dedicated to a color.

 

In addition to creating Touleen art I love working with other materials such as leather cord and wool fiber.      I’ve been doing abstract needlepoint canvases since the 70’s and last year I started weaving small art tapestries.      Today you’ll find me holding a heated hose and gun, at my art table,  working at a small loom or watching TV stitching needlepoint.    At 78 I’m totally addicted and can’t stop doing my art.   

 

Fred Slautterback

 

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Exhibitions and Galleries:

                           de Young Museum, San Francisco 2013

                                    "Richard Diebenkorn - The Berkeley Years"

                                                Featured jewelry for the exhibition

                             Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2012

                                    "Alex Katz - Prints"

                                                Featured jewelry for the exhibition

                             Halls Kansas City, 2007

                                                Personal Appearances – April and September

                             Cima Colina, Carmel, CA 2007

                             Gumps, San  Francisco, CA 2006

                            Gallery North, Carmel, CA 2006 

                                          Two person show

                           John Gardiner’s Tennis Resort, Carmel Valley, CA 2005

                                    “Fall Celebration” – two person show              

                           Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey

                                  “Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction”

                                 Surveys cutting-edge abstract painting produced in the region today.

                                            May 15 – July 21, 2005 

                          Christopher Hill Gallery, St. Helena, CA

                          Lauryn Taylor Art Gallery, Carmel, CA 2005

                          The Big Pagoda Company, San Francisco, CA 2005

                          Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA 2005

                                    “Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction”

                          Art Concepts, Walnut Creek, CA 2004    

                         Harmonic Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 2004 - one person show

                          The Art House, Pacific Grove, CA 2004

                          The Carl Cherry Foundation, Carmel, CA 2004

                                    “Artists’ Choices” – two person show

                          Morgan Miller Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA 2003

                                                “Summer Soltise” – two person show

                           Nido Gallery, Moss Landing, CA 2003

                            Gallery Ocean Avenue, Carmel, CA 2002

                            Expressions In Fine Art, Santa Fe, 2002 

                           Sally Russell Gallery, Carmel Valley, CA 2002

                           Homescapes Carmel, CA 2001 -  two person show

                            ARTtech – Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA 2001

                           Art and Antiques, Los Gatos, CA 2001 -  one person show

                            Art Expo New York 2001

                           East End Gallery, Carmel Valley, CA 2000

                            Monterey Peninsula College Gallery, 2000

                                    “A New Art” – one person show

                            Old South Wharf Gallery, Nantucket, MA 1999

 

 

 

Publications:       

                           A New Art, GO Magazine, 2000

                           Carmel Adventuress, 2001

                                    “Hot Art”

                           The Journal of the San Juan Islands, 2003

                           Modern Plastics, August, 2005 - Cover article

                                    "Plastics, full spectrum - From industrial design to fine art"   

                           Monterey Herald, 2006

                                    “Summer Colors”

                           Carmel Magazine, 2010

                                    “How My Space Became Our space”

                     Carmel Magazine, 2013

                                    “Local Couple Combines Talents to Produce Creative Jewelry”

 

Some                         Robert Woods Johnson University Hospital, Brunswick, NJ

Corporate                  Superior Essex Corporation, Atlanta, GA

Collections:              Nordson Corporation, Westlake, OH

                                  Stahl Mercedes Motors, Monterey, CA

                                  Caddell & Chapman Law Firm, Houston, TX

                                 Berner International, New Castle, PA

                                 Anthony and Murdock, Monterey, CA

 

Some                    Mr. & Mrs. James Grieves, Baltimore, MD

Private                 Mr. & Mrs. William Mitchell, Pebble Beach, CA

Collections:        Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Hahn, Pebble Beach, CA

                            Mr. George Y. Blair, Carmel, CA

                            Mr. & Mrs. Charles Banta, Buffalo, NY

                           Mr. & Mrs. James Didion, Pebble Beach, CA

                           Mr. & Mrs. Clay Larson, Carmel, CA

                           General & Mrs. Al Post, Orlando, FL

                           Mr. & Mrs. James Vorhes, Carmel Valley, CA

                           Dr. & Mrs. Curtis Cook, Los Gatos, CA

                           Mr. & Mrs. William Stahl, Carmel Valley, CA

                           Mr. & Mrs. James Shattuck, Riverside, CT

                           Mr. & Mrs. Michael Caddell, Houston, TX

                           Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Dunlap, Carmel, CA

                           Dr. & Mrs. Martin Crow, Shanee Mission, KA

                           Mr. George Blair, Fresno, CA

                           Mr. Charles de Guigne, Pebble Beach, CA

                           Mr. & Mrs. William Reno, Carmel Valley, CA

                           Mr. & Mrs. Harry Harwood, New York, NY

                           Mr. Jean-Pierre Mallet, Mougins, France          

 

Education:         University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio – 1962-1967

                                    Bachelor of Science – Engineering/Industrial Management

                           University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California – 1972-1973

                                    Masters - Business Administration