Hunt Slonem “Spirit In Nature”

Hunt Slonem “Spirit In Nature”

Richard Taittinger Gallery

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Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem (b. 1951) is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds, as well as his large-scale sculptures and restorations of forgotten historic homes. Slonem’s works can be found in the permanent collections of 250 museums around the world, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Whitney, the Miro Foundation and the
New Orleans Museum of Art.

After graduating with a degree in painting and art history from Tulane University in New Orleans, Slonem spent several years in the early 1970s living in Manhattan. It wasn’t until Janet Fish offered him her studio for the summer of 1975 that Slonem was able to fully immerse himself in his work. His pieces began getting exhibited around New York, propelling his reputation and thrusting him into the city’s explosive contemporary arts scene. He received several prestigious grants, including from Montreal’s Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Cultural Counsel Foundation’s Artist Project, for which he painted an 80- foot mural of the World Trade Center in the late 1970s. He also received an introduction to the Marlborough Gallery, which would represent him for 18 years.

Numerous books and monographs have chronicled Slonem’s art, including Bunnies (Glitterari Inc., 2014), Birds (Glitterati Inc., 2017) Butterflies (Glitterati Inc., 2022), and The Bigger Picture (Scala Arts Publishers Inc., 2021) to name a few. His studios and homes have been profiled in such books as The Spirited Homes of Hunt Slonem (Gibbs Smith, 2023) , World of Folly (Assouline Publishing, 2018) When Art Meets Design (Assouline Publishing, 2014) and Pleasure Palaces: The Art and Homes of Hunt Slonem (PowerHouse Books, 2007).

Media

• Sculpture
• Installation

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