DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM THE SPIRITUAL AND NATURAL WORLDS, HUNT SLONEM REPEATS MOTIFS ON AN EPIC SCALE IN AN ACT OF VISUAL AND ARTISTIC MANTRA.
HUNT SLONEM, BORN IN KITTERY, MAINE IN 1951, IS AN AMERICAN ARTIST BEST KNOWN FOR HIS “MAXIMALIST” PAINTINGS OF WILDLIFE EXOTICA —MOST FAMOUSLY BIRDS, RABBITS AND BUTTERFLIES. RENDERED THROUGH LOOSE, GESTURAL BRUSHWORK, HIS FIGURES DISSOLVE INTO RHYTHMIC PATTERNS AT THE EDGE OF ABSTRACTION, CREATING SYMPHONIES OF COLOR, LINE AND FORM ACROSS A HIGHLY TEXTURAL CANVAS. HIS OEUVRE’S MEDITATIVE QUALITIES ARE EQUALLY MATCHED, BY A “REMARKABLE LEVITY... A LIGHTNESS OF BEING” (HENRY GELDZAHLER, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 1996). SLONEM HAS EXHIBITED THE WORLD-OVER AND HAS HAD OVER 350 SHOWS, INCLUDING 20 MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS. IN SUMMER 2019 SLONEM HAD A SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS WITH THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART IN KIEV AND THE ODESSA MUSEUM OF EASTERN AND WESTERN ART.