HUNT SLONEM
Fluffle
Hunt Slonem: Fluffle 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 home occupied by himself and 60 birds. Grids and lines and squares fill Hunt’s world, surrounded as he is by cages and walls and windows. His work is not unlike an interior Agnes Martin; no unambiguous or stark outside desert, but wet paint on wet paint inspired by being private and inside one’s own home. 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. Bunnies as images seem obvious as subject matter as we know them to multiply. Quick and gestural, rabbits are sly nod to nature’s own direction to reproduce. Hunt’s birds are a more personal match for the act of
repetition. He says they are obsessive like he is, and are celestial messengers FLUFFLE
in almost every faith. Birds chatter away, half-hidden but everywhere. Their obsession implying intention, just as the painter makes them real with color, and oil, and incised lines. As for what he would like people to know about him personally, he says the answer is nothing in particular. He honors President Lincoln, and has a relationship with his spirit. Hunt’s desire is that people have their own experiences with his work. The mechanism of painting, and the item that is a painting, is the magic to Hunt. Michael Carroll Santa Fe, New Mexico 2020
725 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501 | turnercarrollgallery.com | 505.986.9800 | info@turnercarrollgallery.com
Hunt Slonem Hope 2, 2019 oil and acrylic with diamond dust on canvas 40 x 60"
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Hunt Slonem Untitled (bunny sculpture), 2019 oil, acrylic, plaster, resin on wood 60 x 44 x 11"
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Hunt Slonem Evening Distance, 2017 oil on canvas 60 x 72"
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Hunt Slonem Morning Glories, 2018 oil on canvas 40 x 40"
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Hunt Slonem Guam, 2019 oil on canvas 30 x 40"
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Hunt Slonem Four Times, 2019 oil on wood 42 x 24"
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Hunt Slonem HH, 2019 oil on wood 30 x 24"
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Hunt Slonem Bayou La Fouche, 2019 oil on wood 38.5 x 55.5"
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Hunt Slonem Abe, 2015 oil on wood 26.75 x 21"
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Hunt Slonem Swallowtails, 2019 oil on canvas 30 x 30"
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Hunt Slonem Finches on Green, 2019 oil on wood 33 x 27"
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Hunt Slonem Horns of Plenty I, 1981 serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil ed. 22/175 24 x 24"
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Hunt Slonem Untitled, 2017 oil on wood 35 x 28"
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Hunt Slonem Red Rover, 2019 oil on wood 15 x 13"
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Hunt Slonem Luna & Days, 2019 oil on canvas 48 x 48"
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Hunt Slonem Blue Lagoon II, 2019 oil and acrylic with diamond dust 30 x 30"
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Hunt Slonem Hutch Well, 2019 oil on canvas 30 x 30"
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Hunt Slonem Untitled, 2019 oil on wood 16.5 x 14.5"
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Hunt Slonem Abraham Lincoln, 2019 oil on wood 30.5 x 25.25"
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Hunt Slonem Untitled, 2019 oil on wood 15 x 13"
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Hunt Slonem Looking Glass, 2019 oil, resin, acrylic on canvas 40 x 60"
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Hunt Slonem Rabbit Run, 2018 oil on canvas 48 x 48"
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Hunt Slonem Copper Mine, 2019 oil, resin, acrylic on canvas 48 x 48"
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Hunt Slonem Untitled, 2019 oil on wood 16.5 x 14"
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Hunt Slonem Abraham's Peace Plan, 2018 oil on wood 44 x 33"
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Hunt Slonem Untitled, 2019 oil on wood 12 x 10"
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Hunt Slonem Silver Ascension, 2019 oil on canvas 30 x 40"
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Hunt Slonem Midnight, 2019 oil on wood 14 x 12"
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Hunt Slonem Grid, 2019 oil on wood 21 x 20.5"
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Hunt Slonem Untitled, 2009 oil on board 15.25 x 13.25"
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Hunt Slonem Untitled, 2019 oil on wood 15 x 13"
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Hunt Slonem Untitled, 2019 oil on wood 13 x 11"
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Hunt Slonem Guardians and Butterflies Walinger, 2018 oil on wood 40 x 60"
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Hunt Slonem Falcon, 2017 oil on wood 15 x 13"
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Hunt Slonem Untitled, 2018 oil on wood 16 x 14"
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Hunt Slonem Rex, 2019 oil on wood 14.5 x 12.5"
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Hunt Slonem Untitled, 2019 oil on wood 14 x 12"
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Hunt Slonem Untitled, 2018 oil on wood 10 x 8"
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Hunt Slonem Blues 2, 2019 oil on wood 24 x 36"
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Hunt Slonem Untitled, 2019 oil on wood 10 x 8"
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Hunt Slonem Untitled, 2019 oil on wood 14 x 12"
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Hunt Slonem Untitled, 2019 oil on wood 8 x 6"
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Hunt Slonem 4 Continents, 2019 oil on wood 15 x 13"
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Hunt Slonem Silver Assumption, 2019 oil on wood 50 x 32"
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725 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501 | turnercarrollgallery.com | 505.986.9800 | info@turnercarrollgallery.com