Duane Slick is a Meskwaki painter, storyteller, and educator of Winnebago descent. Originally from Waterloo, IA, he now resides in Providence, RI. His visual work includes black-and-white photorealist paintings, monochromatic text work on linen, and multidimensional coyote portraits. His work has been described as “dream paintings whose aim is the exploration of matters spiritual, not physical.”

In 2022, Slick received notable praise in the New York Times for his solo exhibition, The Coyote Makes the Sunset Better, at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, CT. This was his first-time exhibiting solo at a museum and featured over 90 works. Writer Dawn Chan writes, “The paintings are terrific. […] For one, they suggest the textures of modern life, whether in the perfect curves of prefab furniture or the glitching screens and grids of early video games. But they also seem to get at the experience of bereavement amid nature: the experience, maybe, of pausing to look at a night sky and letting an unfamiliar new solitude sink in.”