For Immediate Release
Hunt Slonem, Solo Show
Opens June 9, 2023, 6:00 pm-8:00 pm. Hunt Slonem will be present opening night.
On view through July 10.
TEW Galleries is pleased to announce our 5th solo exhibition with the maestro of the mark, Hunt
Slonem. Slonem is a painter’s painter with an enormous bag of technical tricks which become more apparent the longer one stands before the work.
Slonem has exhibited the world-over and has had over 350 shows, including more than 20 museum exhibitions. In Summer 2019, he had a special exhibit with the National Museum of
Art in Kiev and Odessa Museum of Eastern and Western Art. In August of 2023, he opens a solo exhibition at the Vienna Kunst Forum Museum in Vienna, Austria.
Drawing inspiration from the spiritual and natural worlds, Slonem repeats his motifs, sometimes on an epic scale, in an act of visual and artistic mantra. Rendered through loose, gestural brushwork, his figures dissolve into rhythmic patterns at the edges of abstraction, creating a highly textural canvas. Along with the canvas, he has created glass blown bunnies in collaboration with Idlewild, each with its own unique qualities and personality.
Widely considered one of the greatest colorists of his time, Slonem extends his love of exuberant color in his vibrant dress and décor of his historic homes. He has received critical acclaim for his restorations of national historic monuments, including Gilded Age mansions and Antebellum plantations which the artist saves from neglect and fills with installations combining his work with collections of 19th century antiques. The artist has launched a textiles collection in partnership with Groundworks for Lee Jofa. He also has had several coffee table books published about his work and renovations of grand properties.
