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Blue Diamond Dust
2026
- Medium
- Oil & Acrylic with Diamond Dust on Wood
- Dimensions
- 72 × 84 in.
- Inventory
- JMG3266
- Price
- Upon request
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Hunt Slonem · studio portrait
The Sphere Gallery · Artist Profile
Hunt Slonem
American artist whose neo-expressionist paintings turn birds, butterflies, and rabbits into fields of color, rhythm, and tactile light.
Born
Kittery, Maine · 1951
Practice
Painting · Sculpture · Printmaking
Featured work
Blue Diamond Dust · 2026
01 / Biography
A language of repetition, touch, and light.
Hunt Slonem has developed a singular visual language in which recurring animal forms become a vehicle for mood, motion, and material presence. His paintings often begin with the immediacy of the hand: quick loops, layered contours, and luminous surfaces that build rhythm without surrendering spontaneity.
Born in Kittery, Maine, in 1951, Slonem was shaped by periods spent in Hawaii and by later travel through Central America. Across paintings, sculpture, and printmaking, he returns to the natural world as both subject and source of feeling—distilling birds, butterflies, and rabbits into resonant, repeated gestures.
Biographical reference: Hunt Slonem, official biography and Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Blue Diamond Dust
02 / Practice
Hunt Slonem artistic practice
Slonem’s rabbit paintings balance motif and abstraction. Repetition turns each figure into a pulse across the picture plane, while pigment, scrape, and glint turn the surface into a living field. In Blue Diamond Dust, the work’s cobalt ground and sparkling material dimension give the familiar motif the intensity of a nocturne.
His practice is held in major institutional collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which holds his 1990 work Habitat. His official biography also lists collections at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Fundació Joan Miró, and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Material & Motif
The rabbit becomes a rhythm, not an illustration.
In Slonem’s work, repeated figures act like notation. They gather and scatter across the surface, held together by the velocity of the hand and the sensory intensity of color. The result is both immediate and meditative—a work that changes as the eye moves through it.
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