About
The Journey
Slangal, a 1979 graduate of Texas State University with dual majors in Fine and Commercial Art, built a career defined by creativity, persistence, and innovation. Recognized early for his talent, he became TSU’s sole student art director, producing brochures, logos, and event materials, while also assisting in the Art Department. Balancing studies with work, he graduated loan-free and soon launched a graphic design firm that grew into a 14-person advertising agency.
By the late 1980s, Slangal shifted focus to independent work, pursuing more personal and meaningful projects. From 1999 to 2018, his portfolio flourished with painting, sculpture, silkscreen, photography, and mixed media, exhibited nationally and internationally. Known for bold colors and inventive 3D works using everyday objects, his art emphasizes sustainability, originality, and vision. His journey reflects the power of passion and perseverance to transform dreams into reality.
Birth Right, 2024
Gnoformism
Gnoformism is my artistic philosophy, a practice where knowledge takes shape through forms, colors, and objects. Thought becomes structure, material, and pattern, transforming intuition into tangible meaning. Each work exists as both object and philosophy, a vessel of hidden insight.
Method
Through drawings, assemblages, and layered chroma, I create what I call “mindmade matter.” These works are not passive objects but arguments and insights, resonant structures that bridge the personal and the universal. Color becomes knowledge, structure becomes dialogue, and form becomes a carrier of deeper understanding.
Vision
My aim is to build modern hieroglyphs, objects and images that embody wisdom, intuition, and transformation. Gnoformism is both method and message, an architecture of knowing where thought becomes object and object becomes meaning, inviting reflection on the unseen dimensions of existence.