Contemporary Paintings
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Style: Contemporary
Artist: Hunt Slonem
Now and Again
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Unique oil painting, artist's antique frame, signed verso, COA included
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mary Queen of Scots
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Unique oil painting, artists frame, signed verso, COA included
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Orange Diamond 2
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Unique oil painting with diamond dust, signed verso, COA included
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue Diamond Dust Hutch
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a group of blue bunnies on a deep cobalt blue background with thick ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Megalopolis
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Oil on Wood
22 x 18.50 x 2.50 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lark Spur
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Hunt Slonem
Lark Spur, 2022
Oil on Wood
10 x 8 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Non Parel
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Hunt Slonem
Non Parel, 2021
Oil on Wood
10 x 8 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Guardian Conures Butterflies"
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Monsoon Havana"
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Chinensis August Moon"
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Assumption Ascension
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hunt Slonem, oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue Tanzanite Diamond Dust
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hunt Slonem, oil on canvas, diamond dust
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chinensis August Moon, Totem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hunt Slonem, oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Finches Green Singers
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hunt Slonem, oil on wood, artists antique frame
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pink Ascension
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hunt Slonem, oil on canvas, signed verso in black paint
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue Ascension
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hunt Slonem, oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Color Purple
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: The Color Purple
Series: Bunnies
Date: 2022
Medium: Oil on wood with acrylic and diamond dust
Unframed Dimensions: 22" x...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Hunt Slonem, Black and White Bunnies, Oil Painting 'White Diamond Dust'
By Hunt Slonem
Located in White Plains, NY
'White Diamond Dust' by Hunt Slonem, 2022. Oil and acrylic with diamond dust on canvas, 36 x 48 in. This painting features Slonem's signature bunnies outlined in black over a white, diamond dusted background.
Considered one of the great colorists of his time, Slonem’s neo-expressionist paintings feature an exuberant and bold, fauvist palette to emphasize his beloved menagerie of animals. Through the application of lavish, lush colors, Slonem’s painterly style continues to be fresh and innovative bordering on Pop Art aesthetics. Depicting his signature motifs of repeating whimsical animal imagery, the artist’s devotion to nature and its inhabitants are apparent.
Born in Kittery, Maine in 1951, Hunt Slonem graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Painting and Art History from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Slonem later attended the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, where he was exposed to influential artists from the New York area including Alex Katz, Alice Neel, Richard Estes, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson and Al Held. This exposure played a pivotal role in Slonem’s artistic career, as it aided in his decision to move to New York in 1973.
Since 1977, Slonem has had over 250 solo exhibitions at prestigious galleries. Museums, both domestic and international, have collected his work, among them Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Whitney, the Miro Foundation, and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
His work has been exhibited globally, including in Madras, Quito, Venice, Gustavia, San...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Hunt Slonem, Blue & White Butterflies Oil painting, 'Blue Ascension August Moon'
By Hunt Slonem
Located in White Plains, NY
'Blue Ascension August Moon' by Hunt Slonem, 2022. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in. This painting features Slonem's signature butterflies outlined in black over a blue, cross hatched background.
Considered one of the great colorists of his time, Slonem’s neo-expressionist paintings feature an exuberant and bold, fauvist palette to emphasize his beloved menagerie of animals. Through the application of lavish, lush colors, Slonem’s painterly style continues to be fresh and innovative bordering on Pop Art aesthetics. Depicting his signature motifs of repeating whimsical animal imagery, the artist’s devotion to nature and its inhabitants are apparent.
Born in Kittery, Maine in 1951, Hunt Slonem graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Painting and Art History from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Slonem later attended the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, where he was exposed to influential artists from the New York area including Alex Katz, Alice Neel, Richard Estes, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson and Al Held. This exposure played a pivotal role in Slonem’s artistic career, as it aided in his decision to move to New York in 1973.
Since 1977, Slonem has had over 250 solo exhibitions at prestigious galleries. Museums, both domestic and international, have collected his work, among them Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Whitney, the Miro Foundation, and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
His work has been exhibited globally, including in Madras, Quito, Venice, Gustavia, San Juan, Guatemala City, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Stockholm, Oslo, Cologne, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. His work has been shown in thirty-one different museums including the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1981; the Museo Diocesano d'arte sacra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunt Slonem, Multi-colored Bird Oil painting, 'Finches'
By Hunt Slonem
Located in White Plains, NY
'Finches' by Hunt Slonem, 2022. Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in. This painting features Slonem's signature finches in white, red, blue, and green on a white background.
Considered one of the great colorists of his time, Slonem’s neo-expressionist paintings feature an exuberant and bold, fauvist palette to emphasize his beloved menagerie of animals. Through the application of lavish, lush colors, Slonem’s painterly style continues to be fresh and innovative bordering on Pop Art aesthetics. Depicting his signature motifs of repeating whimsical animal imagery, the artist’s devotion to nature and its inhabitants are apparent.
Born in Kittery, Maine in 1951, Hunt Slonem graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Painting and Art History from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Slonem later attended the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, where he was exposed to influential artists from the New York area including Alex Katz, Alice Neel, Richard Estes, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson and Al Held. This exposure played a pivotal role in Slonem’s artistic career, as it aided in his decision to move to New York in 1973.
Since 1977, Slonem has had over 250 solo exhibitions at prestigious galleries. Museums, both domestic and international, have collected his work, among them Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Whitney, the Miro Foundation, and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
His work has been exhibited globally, including in Madras, Quito, Venice, Gustavia, San Juan, Guatemala City, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Stockholm, Oslo, Cologne, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. His work has been shown in thirty-one different museums including the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1981; the Museo Diocesano d'arte sacra Sant'Apollonia in Venice, Italy, in 1986; the Albany Museum of Art in Albany, Georgia, in 2007; the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2007; Museo de Arte de El Salvador in San Salvador...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monday Peace Plan
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Bringing a 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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
New Mexico
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hunt Slonem
New Mexico, 2022
10 x 8 inches
Oil on wood
This piece is unique
Signed by artist
Framed
Currently on display at Art Angels Los Angeles
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Fluffle Totem Tuesday
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hunt Slonem
Fluffle Totem Tuesday, 2020
Oil on canvas
40 x 40 inches
This piece is unique
Signed by artist
Currently on display at Art Angels Los Angeles
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Bonnet
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hunt Slonem
Bonnet, 2022
10 x 8 inches
Oil on wood
This piece is unique
Signed by artist
Framed
Currently on display at Art Angels Los Angeles
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Blue Diamond Tuesday
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Blue Diamond Tuesday
Series: Bunnies
Date: 2021
Medium: Oil on canvas with acrylic and diamond dust
Unframed Dime...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Hunt Slonem Colorful Bunnies Oil Painting 'Chinensis The Mother'
By Hunt Slonem
Located in White Plains, NY
'Chinensis The Mother' by Hunt Slonem, 2021. Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in. This painting features Slonem's signature bunnies outlined in black over swirling colors of silver, pink, orange, and blue.
This novel ‘bunnies’ painting is influenced by the hustle and bustle, 24 hour a day, irradiant lights of New...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sulphers 2
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Sulphers 2
Series: Butterflies
Date: 2021
Medium: Oil on panel
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 15.5" x 13.5"
Signature: Signed by...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
White Butterflies (KFJ02982)
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hunt Slonem was born in Kittery, Maine in 1951. His fascination with exotica imprinted during his childhood in Hawaii and experience as a foreign exchange student in Managua, Nicarag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Untitled (EA00880)
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hunt Slonem was born in Kittery, Maine in 1951. His fascination with exotica imprinted during his childhood in Hawaii and experience as a foreign exchange student in Managua, Nicarag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood
Fatal Attraction (EA01249)
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hunt Slonem was born in Kittery, Maine in 1951. His fascination with exotica imprinted during his childhood in Hawaii and experience as a foreign exchange student in Managua, Nicarag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Tandra (CSR0981)
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hunt Slonem was born in Kittery, Maine in 1951. His fascination with exotica imprinted during his childhood in Hawaii and experience as a foreign exchange student in Managua, Nicarag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Bayou LaFouche (EA02073)
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hunt Slonem was born in Kittery, Maine in 1951. His fascination with exotica imprinted during his childhood in Hawaii and experience as a foreign exchange student in Managua, Nicarag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Bayou Teche (CSR2353)
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hunt Slonem was born in Kittery, Maine in 1951. His fascination with exotica imprinted during his childhood in Hawaii and experience as a foreign exchange student in Managua, Nicarag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Bayou La Touche Madewood (CSR2280)
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Hunt Slonem was born in Kittery, Maine in 1951. His fascination with exotica imprinted during his childhood in Hawaii and experience as a foreign exchange student in Managua, Nicarag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Red Butterfly
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Butterflies. This piece depicts delicate butterflies in ascension placed in a wonderful gold landscape. Slonem traces...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Hutch
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts gestural figures of Bunnies against a white background with thick black paint. The colo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Ascension, butterflies on blue & silver
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hunt Slonem, oil on canvas, signed verso in black paint
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bunnies on gold
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Miami Beach, FL
oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bunny Wall
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Six paintings by Hunt Slonem, each oil on wood, diamond dust with artists frame (14x16 inches each)
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
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