{"id":16505,"date":"2023-09-22T10:38:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T08:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frankfluegel.com\/?p=16505"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:27:54","slug":"the-artist-hunt-slonem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankfluegel.com\/en\/2023\/09\/22\/the-artist-hunt-slonem\/","title":{"rendered":"The artist Hunt Slonem, neo-expressionist and Warhol admirer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hunt Slonem’s works are sublimely decorative yet deeply spiritual. They are full of light and color, exotic birds<\/a>, butterflies and Hollywood stars. But most of all, he is known for his Rabbits from his Bunny <\/a>series. His art celebrates the glory of life while highlighting the threat our civilization poses to the natural world. Slonem’s canvases emphasize an aesthetic of eye activity; the viewer’s eye is in almost constant motion to take in the entire rectangle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artist Hunt Slonem \/ Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hunt Slonem<\/a> wakes up every morning and captures rabbits on canvas. These warm-up exercises are what John Berendt calls “the artistic equivalent of gymnastics, exercising his painting apparatus to gain control of the colors, shapes, and textures that flow from his mind’s eye through his arm, hand, and brush onto the painted surface.”
Hunt Slonem paints countless other subjects, but rabbits are always the start of his day. Like the white rabbit in Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” they lead him down the rabbit hole into the wonderland where the rest of his paintings are located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monet had his water lilies. Dali had his soft watches. Warhol had his Campbell soup cans, I have my bunnies.<\/p>\nHunt Slonem<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Hunt Slonem started painting some rabbits every day a long time ago. About thirty years ago he had an exhibition in Richmond, and like all young artists no money for modern frames. He went to the flea market a lot and started buying 19th century photo frames. There was a standard 8\u00d710 inch format. He started working in that format. The frames changed the way he worked. He bought gallons of white paint to paint wet on wet. That was the big breakthrough for Hunt Slonem.
He started doing these little studies to fit the frames wet on wet.
Why he chose bunnies of all things he doesn’t know today. He liked them and had them as pets all his life.
Besides, he just liked the shape and they are cuddly. One night he was eating at the Chinese restaurant and looked down and thought to himself that he was the sign of the rabbit. So maybe they are all some kind of self-portrait?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Home with Hunt Slonem, Susanna Salk, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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