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Hunt SlonemHunt Slonem "Spangle Finches" Birds2024
2024
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Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Spangle Finches
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 26" x 20"
Framed Dimensions: 31.5" x 25.5"
Signature: Signed verso
Edition: Unique
Hunt Slonem is a veteran to one-man shows in global hot spots like Venice, Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, Oslo, Tokyo, Dubai and Hong Kong, and over one hundred museums worldwide include his distinctive works in their collections. Called a Neo-Expressionist, Slonem combines Abstract Expressionist techniques with mysticism and animal subjects; bunnies, butterflies and birds.
Slonem uses an abstract platform for his traditional subject matter, developed with gestural brushwork and bold Warhol Esque repetitive compositions. Fascinated by the manipulation of paint, he works quickly and creates jarring color juxtapositions, developing multiple canvases simultaneously. The artist paints areas of the canvas, building layers side by side as well as one on top of the next. He works on each area swiftly, allowing the paint to dry just enough before applying cross-hatching with the opposite end of his paint brush. The scratched grids that cover the forms beneath exert a literal bondage and a protective domain, the visual effect of which is spellbinding. The textures achieved by Slonem’s trade-mark etching capture light and further emphasize the ethereal nature Slonem bestows upon his beloved subjects.
- Creator:Hunt Slonem (1951, American)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 31.5 in (80.01 cm)Width: 25.5 in (64.77 cm)
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- Condition:Hunt sources antique frames so the condition of the frame itself is in line with the period of manufacture (see photo).
- Gallery Location:Boston, MA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU23714993922
Hunt Slonem
Hunt Slonem has mastered the art of repetition in his exuberant Neo-Expressionist paintings. Some of his favorite subjects are bunnies, butterflies and the tropical birds that live in the private aviary nestled within his 30,000-square-foot studio complex in Brooklyn, New York.
“I believe in repetition like a holy mantra or rosary,” Slonem told Introspective, referring to his artistic method. “I am slightly influenced by Pop art, like the repetition of soup cans, postage stamps and celebrities. It’s something I have been doing my whole life.”
Slonem’s depictions of birds — which are often rendered in thick, gestural brushstrokes and arranged in a loose grid — owe to a fascination with tropical avian life that he developed during a childhood spent in Hawaii and Nicaragua. Today, along with the aviary, his studio contains a personal garden, a collection of antiques and walls and walls of artworks.
“I am a collector of things. My primary focus is color and objects. I love to make them work in a space,” Slonem says. “Sometimes I define a space with color.”
Besides birds, Slonem has painted so many bunnies that they’ve become a signature. Limned in expressive, urgent strokes on flat, vibrantly colored backgrounds, these creatures fascinate through their subtle variations. “I have painted hundreds of rabbits, but each one is different,” the artist has explained. “Each has its own personality, and it just comes through me.”
The multitalented Slonem also sculpts, makes prints, creates installations and restores historic spaces. His work has achieved cult status among collectors and is represented in the permanent collections of such esteemed institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Slonem has even made an appearance on Real Housewives of New York.
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