Untitled (Green Bird)

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Hunt Slonem
Untitled (Green Bird)
2015

Name: Untitled (Green Bird)
Brand: Hunt Slonem
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)

About the Item

Hunt Slonem Untitled (green bird) 2015 oil on wood 10" x 8" Bringing a whimsical, freewheeling sense of awe, wonder and detail to his wild array of paintings and sculptures and peaceful, mystical living and working spaces, NYC based artist and lifestyle trendsetter Hunt Slonem is considered one of the great colorists of his time. As vibrant a dresser (favoring bright jackets and ties) and decorator (known for his keen eye for refurbishing homes and pairing vintage furniture with contemporary art) as he is a painter and sculptor, the Maine born creative force of nature is well known for his neo-expressionist works of butterflies, rabbits and tropical birds, the latter often inspired by the 30 to 100 exotic feathered friends he houses at any given time in an aviary in his 30,000 square foot Manhattan studio. Slonem has had over 300 one-man shows in galleries and museums internationally. His work is also in the permanent collections of 250 museums including the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney, and the Moreau Foundation, and is part of private collections all over the world, including those of many celebrities. In 2014 Hunt participated in 36 exhibitions of his works throughout the U.S. and Europe and rolled out his new line of wallpaper and rugs for Lee Jofa. His latest book, When Art Meets Design, published by Assouline, has 280 illustrations of his art as also offering a dynamic view into his three fantastically decorated and meticulously restored homes. Since Hunt was born in the Year of the Rabbit it makes perfect sense that his most recent body of work would be a meditation on the bunny, which he combines with his passion for collecting, as the paintings are exhibited in Victorian-era portrait frames picked up from his travels across the country. Hunt Slonem's 2014 book titled Bunnies, is a luxurious, finely designed and crafted first collection of "bunny art" an exciting, unexpected, impressionistic mega collection for adults and children alike. "My work is wonderful to live with, and I love to live with it." says Slonem. "Unlike a lot of contemporary art which is political or shocking or jarring, mine is non-judgmental, like an eternal witness that watches without judging. I'm also exhilarated by nature, including birds, plants and butterfly forms that most people don't even know exist. I collected all of those things when I was an exchange student in Nicaragua, and caught my first morpho butterfly, which is an exquisite iridescent blue when I was 16. I think my art comes from being born somehow conscious of other realms, which is what the divine is all about. I grew orchids as a child, and have long recognized that orchids and birds come from those places as a gift to humanity." Slonem has long attributed much of his prolific output to his work with channels and psychics. A spiritual sojourner his whole life who is always on a quest for soul freedom and dispensing with fear, his earliest paintings were of Catholic and Hindu saints surrounding animals. He has used his art to raise money for numerous charities (including cancer research) and wallpaper he has created in conjunction with the Lee Jofa product line has been installed at the Ronald McDonald House. Slonem combines his passions for the spiritual and historical in his sessions with a medium in which he felt the spirit of Abraham Lincoln - who regularly consulted with mediums himself - tell him to paint doves for a series of works Slonem dubbed "Abraham's Peace Plan". Another recurring theme in the artist's pictorial work is portrait painting, and of the 16th President in particular. Slonem has said that his portraits of Lincoln feel personal, and in surprising ways, he's close to the long-deceased. As the son of a Navy officer, Slonem spent his childhood on military bases: growing orchids in Hawaii, collecting stamps in Louisiana, and chasing those butterflies in Nicaragua - the place that inspired him most. The tropical landscape informed not only his process, but also his need to be surrounded by the nature he paints; he often works with a bird or two perched on his shoulder. Hundreds of birds also fill the surface of one of his largest ever projects - a 6'x86' mural he painted for the iconic Bryant Park Grill Restaurant in NYC. "One of my recent focuses has been doing installations in various places that recreate my studio, including hanging some of my works and replicating my furniture and feather-walls with moulted feathers," says Slonem. "In many ways, I see my whole life as an installation itself, an ever unfolding play of consciousness that is always fascinating me somehow. I'm always after that wow factor, those magical moments where I create a work and look at it in amazement, as if angels or gnomes had entered my space and created the whole thing. When I was young, I learned that Picasso collected chateaus, and I dreamed of doing something like that my whole life. Having reached that goal with these historic homes, I would like them to become part of my legacy, where people use them as study centers that can educate and inspire new generations of artists."

Creator:
Hunt Slonem (1951, American)
Creation Year:
2015
Dimensions:
Height: 10 in (25.4 cm)Width: 8 in (20.32 cm)
Medium:
Wood,Oil
Movement & Style:
Modern
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Austin, TX
Reference Number:
Seller: 8131stDibs: LU30921679753

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