HUNT SLONEM

b. 1951 / American

Untitled, 2015, oil/acrylic/diamond dust on canvas, 70 x 60"

Red Sea, MJ, 2023, oil on canvas, 40 x 60"

Gold Amazons, 2009, oil on canvas, 48 x 48"

Pink Ascension (1951), 2022, oil on canvas, 30 x 30"

New Birds, 2021, oil on wood, 32.5 x 27.5"

Untitled, 2019, oil on canvas, 48 x 36"

Morphos, 2019, oil on wood, 25.5 x 30"

Single Yellow, 2019, oil on wood, 14.5 x 12.5"

Navy Yard, 2015, oil on canvas, 40 x 30"

Silver Assumption, 2019, oil on wood, 41.5 x 22.5" SOLD

Artist and collector Hunt Slonem is best known for huge Neo-Expressionist oil paintings of tropical birds based on his personal aviary. His lavishly colored canvases are populated with rows of birds rendered with thick brushstrokes. “I was influenced by Warhol's repetition of soup cans and Marilyn,” Slonem says. “But I'm more interested in doing it in the sense of prayer, with repetition... It's really a form of worship.” According to The New York Timesart critic Roberta Smith, “This witty Formalist strategy meshes the creatures into the picture plane and sometimes nearly obliterates them as images, but it also suspends and shrouds them in a dim, atmospheric light that is quite beautiful.” Besides the birds, Slonem also paints repetitions of flowers, bunnies, butterflies, as well as portraits, particularly of Abraham Lincoln.

(Biography courtesy of Artsy)

Hunt Slonem

HUNT SLONEM

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