by Michael Carroll | Sep 30, 2022 | Hunt Slonem, News, Past Exhibitions
Even though Hunt was born in the Chinese year of the rabbit, his work had a slow introduction to these animals. In the 1970s, rabbits began appearing at the feet of saints in devotional paintings. Over the decades, they, as rabbits do, multiplied to cover entire walls...
by Michael Carroll | Aug 1, 2021 | Hunt Slonem, Past Exhibitions
Work in the exhibition may be seen here. Reiteration runs like a mantra through Hunt’s work. As in a prayer, the same words are uttered, but every time they are said the intention and meter are slightly different. As images, rabbits seem obvious as subject matter as...
by Michael Carroll | May 15, 2020 | Hunt Slonem, Past Exhibitions
To refer to Hunt Slonem as a “rara avis” is just about perfect. He is a rare chap with a collection of historic buildings, and a studio occupied by himself and 60 birds. Grids and lines and squares fill Hunt’s world, surrounded as he is by cages and walls and...
by Michael Carroll | May 13, 2020 | Art as a Universal Language, Blog, Library, News
Pablo Picasso – Guernica Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.-Pablo Picasso Art is important because it’s part of the story we tell about ourselves; it’s our culture....