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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$39,500
Bromeliad
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Lexington, KY
This early Hunt Slonem interior piece was painted in 1977. In 1980, they published an edition of 250 serigraphs of this painting. The large scale is a perfect focal point for any roo...
Oil
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$219
H 5.91 in W 5.91 in D 1.19 in
Pocket Sloes [2023], Baroque Still Life Painting, Food Art, Small art
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Sloes [2023] is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still l...
Canvas, Oil
Very Shiny Very Red Apple
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Very Shiny Very Red Apple is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her series of realistic oil paintings of fruit with a nod to baroque still life painting. The pai...
Canvas, Oil
$3,500
H 24 in W 24 in D 1.75 in
Porcelain Red - Lake Landscape Window Flowers Fruit Botanical Still Life, 2024
By Melanie Parke
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary painting in oil on canvas, a cheerful interior scene is bright and inviting with a still life arrangement of red poppies, red flowers and pale pink dahlias in a ...
Canvas, Oil
$4,000
H 36 in W 30 in D 1 in
Still Life with Green Tea, Contemporary Oil on Canvas, Unique, 2000s
By Christopher T Terry
Located in Miami Beach, FL
CWhen an artist works with more conventional still life subjects, they focus primarily on the formal properties of the painting, such as color relationships, form, proportions, and o...
Canvas, Oil
$4,000
H 42 in W 30 in
New Home (Contemporary Oil Painting of Living Room in Yellow with green plants)
Located in Hudson, NY
New Home (Brightly Colored Contemporary oil painting of an Interior with House Plants and red chairs) Painted by Fred Cohen in 2025 42 x 30 inches x 1.5 inches, custom light wood fr...
Canvas, Oil
$3,236
H 19.69 in W 19.69 in D 1.97 in
Yellow Gerbera's - 21st Century Contemporary Dutch Flower Still-life Painting
By Keimpe van der Kooi
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Keimpe van der Kooi Yellow Gerbera's 50 x 50 cm Framed: 55x 55 cm ( This frame is included) Oil on wood panel This Painting is made by Dutch Artist Keimpe van der Kooi. He likes to...
Oil, Wood Panel
Interior 2
By Allison Gildersleeve
Located in Dallas, TX
"Behind my canvases, collages, and drawings lies a singular proposition: places are not inert; they are repositories for all that passes through them. My work is an inquiry into the ...
Oil, Panel
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$219
H 5.91 in W 5.91 in D 1.19 in
Pocket Conker [2023], Baroque Still Life Painting, Food Art, Autumn art
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Conker [2023] is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale oil realistic oil paintings with a nod to baroque sti...
Canvas, Oil
$6,500
H 46 in W 35 in D 1 in
Lemons Still Life Painting, Oil on Canvas, Contemporary
By Christopher T Terry
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In most of the paintings, the artist uses an interior space as his subject, placing a table or similar object at its center. The use of symmetry and eye level often suggests an altar...
Canvas, Oil
$5,500
H 40 in W 32 in D 1 in
Pigeon Holes. Still life Painting, Oil on canvas
By Christopher T Terry
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In most of the paintings, the artist uses an interior space as his subject, placing a table or similar object at its center. The use of symmetry and eye level often suggests an altar...
Canvas, Oil
$1,900
H 19.5 in W 15.5 in D 2 in
Peony (Still Life Painting of a Pink Flower in an Interior Setting, Framed)
By Carl Grauer
Located in Hudson, NY
Still Life painting of a pink peony in a domestic setting Painted by Hudson Valley based artist, Carl Grauer, in 2022 oil on canvas 16 x 12 inches, 19.5 x 15.5 inches with an artist-...
Canvas, Oil
$953
H 15.75 in W 15.75 in
Deborah Windsor, Daffodils and Grape Hyacinth, Original Still Life Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Daffodils and Grape Hyacinth [2020] Original Still Life Oil Paint on Canvas Size: H:40 cm x W:40 cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Daffodils and Grape Hyacinth is an original painting by Deborah Windsor...
Canvas, Oil
Hunt Slonem "Diamonds" Blue Diamond Dust Bunnies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Diamonds" Blue Diamond Dust Bunnies White Bunnies on a deep blue diamond dust background Unframed: 60 x 70 inches. *Painting is unframe...
Canvas, Oil