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Hunt Slonem Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

American, b. 1951

Hunt Slonem has mastered the art of repetition in his exuberant Neo-Expressionist paintings. Some of his favorite subjects are bunnies, butterflies and the tropical birds that live in the private aviary nestled within his 30,000-square-foot studio complex in Brooklyn, New York.

“I believe in repetition like a holy mantra or rosary,” Slonem told Introspective, referring to his artistic method. “I am slightly influenced by Pop art, like the repetition of soup cans, postage stamps and celebrities. It’s something I have been doing my whole life.”

Slonem’s depictions of birds — which are often rendered in thick, gestural brushstrokes and arranged in a loose grid — owe to a fascination with tropical avian life that he developed during a childhood spent in Hawaii and Nicaragua. Today, along with the aviary, his studio contains a personal garden, a collection of antiques and walls and walls of artworks.

“I am a collector of things. My primary focus is color and objects. I love to make them work in a space,” Slonem says. “Sometimes I define a space with color.”

Besides birds, Slonem has painted so many bunnies that they’ve become a signature. Limned in expressive, urgent strokes on flat, vibrantly colored backgrounds, these creatures fascinate through their subtle variations. “I have painted hundreds of rabbits, but each one is different,” the artist has explained. “Each has its own personality, and it just comes through me.”

The multitalented Slonem also sculpts, makes prints, creates installations and restores historic spaces. His work has achieved cult status among collectors and is represented in the permanent collections of such esteemed institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Slonem has even made an appearance on Real Housewives of New York.

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Artist: Hunt Slonem
Toucan drawing, signed inscribed in marker, held in elegant hardback monograph
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
Hunt Slonem Original signed & inscribed drawing held in elegant hardback monograph, ca. 2012 Unique marker drawing bound in first front end page of lavishly illustrated hardback mono...
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2010s Contemporary Hunt Slonem Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Hunt Slonem - Duck watercolor painting (Hand Signed 3x to a Warhol muse), Framed
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Superb provenance: gifted by Hunt Slonem to Andy Warhol muse Monique Van Vooren. A unique work with a unique, personal inscription and historic provenance - hand signed three times. ...
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For Kevin: signed Toucan Drawing in hardback monograph: An Art Rich and Strange
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Hunt Slonem For Kevin: signed Toucan Drawing in hardback monograph: An Art Rich and Strange Signed drawing done in ink on the title page of artist's book Ink drawing of a Toucan held...
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