Phyllis Sloane, a 1982 Cleveland Arts Prize for Visual Arts recipient, experimented with many techniques of painting and printmaking. Sloane's portraiture and figurative compositions during these decades show the influence of her background in commercial art and explore the Pop Art sensibilities of flat comic book styling and the role of identity associated with the sitter. The colors are bold and the compositions crisp and reductive, often leaving negative space or pattern to define the figures. Sloane's subjects were often family and friends, many of whom obtained celebrity status in the...