Hunt Slonem Reimagines Rabbits

An Artist's Adventures in Wonderland

For more than five decades artist Hunt Slonem has been painting and reimagining his obsessive motifs: butterflies, birds, bunnies, and portraits of Abraham Lincoln, whom he refers to as his Marilyn.

Repetition plays a huge role in his work. Excess and extravagance define his life and art. The slippery fine line between his compulsive-obsessive prolificacy dates back to the hey-day of the 1970s when he, and his brother Jeffrey were frequent habitués of Andy Warhol's legendary playpen - the Factory. But unlike Warhol, who famously declared his art to be a factory-produced commodity, Slonem does it all with his own two hands.

In addition to painting multiples of his signature motifs, he sculpts, makes prints, does watercolors, creates installations and collects antique furniture and historic homes - seven of them to be exact: four mansions and three plantations (perhaps too much Gone with the Wind as a child?) He even owns an Armory.

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