Hunt Slonem Bunnies

A collection of gestural bunnies by Hunt Slonem. The bunny motif can be found throughout Slonem's neo-expressionist body of work. Slonem uses bright background colors to contrast the black and white lines he uses to define his subjects. He utilizes every part of the paintbrush, digging the end into the oil paint to carve and define the bunnies features. Rendered through loose, gestural brushwork, his figures dissolve into rhythmic patterns at the edges 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).