Hunt Slonem: Birds, Bunnies & Butterflies
December 4, 2021 – February 26, 2022

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 4, 2021, 5 to 8pm, 5025 France Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55410

Douglas Flanders & Associates is pleased to announce our 2nd solo exhibition of paintings by internationally acclaimed Hunt Slonem. Hunt Slonem: Birds, Bunnies and Butterflies will feature over 50 pieces!

Hunt Slonem came to notice in New York in the mid-1970s. Since then he has had over 350 one-man shows worldwide. Slonem’s works are found in the permanent collections of 250 museums, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney, Miró Foundation, New Orleans Museum of Art and Portland Museum of Art. He has received several prestigious grants from institutions such as Montreal’s Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Cultural Council Foundation’s Artist Project, for which he painted an 80-foot mural of the World Trade Center in the late 1970s.

In 1993 art critic and friend, Henry Geldzahler observed, "Slonem is a painter, a painter's painter with an enormous bag of technical tricks which become apparent to the viewer the longer he stands before the work." According to Slonem, the repetitive imagery is a reference to Andy Warhol: "I was influenced by Warhol's repetition of soup cans and Marilyn, but I'm more interested in doing it in the sense of prayer ... it's really a form of worship." Slonem's deep interest in nature, its jungle creatures, and his own 60 pet birds are reflected in his choice of subject matter. “I’m exhilarated by nature, including birds, plants and butterfly forms that most people don’t even know exist. I collected all of those things when I was an exchange student in Nicaragua, and caught my first morpho butterfly, which is an exquisite iridescent blue when I was 16. I think my art comes from being born somehow conscious of other realms, which is what the divine is all about. I grew orchids as a child, and have long recognized that orchids and birds come from those places as a gift to humanity.”

Hunt Slonem has recently launched an expansive home décor collection, available at Bergdorf Goodman, including textiles, wallpaper, dishware and more. He has published several books about his art, personal style and his numerous historic properties.