Hunt Slonem
Red Sea 2026
10 x 8 in. / Framed 14.5 x 12.5 in.
Through the Looking Glass Puts the Celebrated Artist’s Rabbits, Butterflies, Color and Diamond Dust Center Stage
Hunt Slonem’s unmistakable universe of rabbits, butterflies, birds and brilliant color arrives at One Art Space in Tribeca this summer with “Through the Looking Glass,” an exhibition bringing together works that capture the repetition, movement and fascination with nature that have become signatures of the celebrated American neo-expressionist artist.
The exhibition is on view from Friday, August 21st through Monday, September 28th, 2026 with an opening reception in early September, at One Art Space. The exhibition, Hunt Slonem’s first New York City exhibition in five years, moves between scale and intimacy, from expansive canvases populated by Slonem’s recurring natural motifs to jewel-like paintings framed almost as treasured objects. At its center is “Pink Ascension” (2021), a monumental 77-by-101-inch oil on canvas in which butterflies drift across a luminous pink field, transforming one of Slonem’s most enduring subjects into an enveloping study of rhythm, repetition and movement.
Curator and Co-Owner of One Art Space, MaryAnn Giella McCulloh commented on the new exhibition, “There is something almost jewel-like about Hunt Slonem’s artistry – the color, texture, and repetition, from his bunnies to his butterflies and beyond, draw you in. Beneath that beauty lies a deeper visual language, where nature, imagination, color, and mystery become one. Through the Looking Glass is an invitation into his extraordinary world”
The repetition is fundamental to Slonem’s work. Inspired by nature and by the exotic birds with which he surrounds himself, the artist has spent decades returning to rabbits, butterflies and tropical birds, creating an immediately identifiable visual language characterized by textural brushwork, saturated color and repeated forms. Slonem has described his fascination with the patterns found throughout nature, from feathers and leaves to blades of grass as central to that approach.
Artist, Hunt Slonem said of new exhibition Through the Looking Glass, “A dream of what I see through the looking glass, where my creatures go, where we cannot see them, following their wonder — wonderland and inspiration, the source of all my creativity. A joyous venture.”
About Hunt Slonem:
Hunt Slonem is an American neo-expressionist artist recognized for his paintings of rabbits, butterflies and tropical birds, as well as sculpture and his restoration of historic properties. Inspired by nature and the exotic birds with which he lives and works, Slonem has developed a distinctive visual language built around repetition, vivid color and expressive brushwork. His work is represented in the permanent collections of approximately 250 museums worldwide, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Joan Miró Foundation and New Orleans Museum of Art.
Artist(s): Hunt Slonem
Title: Red Sea
Medium: Oil on Wood
Date: 2026
Dimensions: 10 x 8 in. / Framed 14.5 x 12.5 in.