Hunt Slonem "Acadian Dreams"
Marlborough (Midtown)
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With the title Acadian Dreams, Slonem incorporates centuries of history. The Acadian people, descendants of the 17th-century French colonists of an area in the Canadian Maritime provinces called Acadia, settled in Louisiana during the French and Indian War. Cajuns are their descendents, and Acadiana is now the official name of the French Louisiana region that stretches from just west of New Orleans to the Texas border and along the Gulf of Mexico.
Hunt Slonem’s fascination with the bayous and plantations of Louisiana began when he was a student of Louisiana architecture at Tulane in 1972. The artist now owns two 19th-century plantations, Albania Plantation on the Bayou Teche, in Iberia Parish, and Lakeside Plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish, both located in the heart of Acadiana. Though he maintains a studio in New York, Slonem frequently returns to the south, explaining, “The time I spend in these homes and among the people of Louisiana renews my love of the land and inspires my spirit and my art.” In the large-scale paintings Albania Plantation (2010) and Bayou Teche Albania Plantation (2011), Slonem moves away from the patterns frequently seen with his birds and butterflies and creates a landscape with spatial depth. He demonstrates his familiarity with the bayou environment, using vibrant color and nearly abstract forms to impart the unique character of southern Louisiana: the humidity, the lushness, and the seductiveness.
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from December 07, 2011 to January 07, 2012