Artist Spotlight: Hunt Slonem: Bunnies, Birds & Diamond Dust | On view at Carousel Fine Art, Lenox Square

Walk into Carousel Fine Art at Lenox Square right now and you enter a room that Hunt Slonem has taken over.

Large-scale canvases crowd the walls: a cascade of bunnies rendered in layers of gestural pigment, a hutch painting that glimmers with diamond dust under gallery light, a butterfly study that holds stillness.
The Spotlight

This is not a retrospective. It is a focused spotlight on four significant works — Orange Bowl Hutch, Ruby-Red-Hutch-(Diamond-Dust), Bronze, and Morning Cloak — presented by a gallery that understands how to put serious art in front of the right eyes.

The quality of experience on offer at Lenox Square, an immersive encounter with a single artist's work at scale, is typically available only in museum contexts. Collectors and designers who have seen Slonem's work in reproduction or in group shows are often surprised by the cumulative effect of multiple large canvases in a single space. The room makes the case in a way that no individual image can replicate.

Hunt Slonem's work is on view at Carousel Fine Art through May 31, 2026. That window is closing.
Works on View
All four works are available for acquisition. Contact the gallery for full details.

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For Collectors

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Navigating the Market

Slonem's market is one of the more active in American contemporary art at the mid-to-upper price range. Smaller bunny works represent an accessible entry point. Larger hutch paintings — particularly those with distinctive grounds or diamond dust — command considerably more. Series, scale, surface, and provenance all inflect value.

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What 250+ Museums Signal

Institutional presence of this depth signals that the work has survived serious curatorial scrutiny, demonstrated staying power, and secured its place in the broader narrative of American painting. It establishes a floor of seriousness that separates Slonem's market from artists whose reputations are built primarily on commercial appeal.

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Interior Design Performance

Large-scale hutch paintings perform exceptionally well in residential and hospitality environments. The warm grounds are versatile across architectural color schemes. The figure density sustains attention over time. Understanding how a 60-inch canvas handles a room is something that can be assessed at Lenox Square before any commitment is made.

The Artist
B. KITTERY, MAINE, 1951

Hunt Slonem
Neo-Expressionist painter · New York
Slonem was born in Kittery, Maine in 1951, raised across Hawaii, California, and Nicaragua — a peripatetic childhood that left a permanent mark on his visual imagination. He studied at Tulane University in New Orleans, where the heat, color, and cultural density of the city began shaping a palette and an appetite for excess that distinguishes his mature work. He also trained at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

"The act of painting the same subject hundreds of times over decades is not a limitation of imagination but a deepening of attention."

The move to New York was decisive. Slonem arrived during the late 1970s, a period of intense creative energy in the downtown art scene, quickly establishing himself among the Neo-Expressionist painters reclaiming the primacy of gesture, color, and subject matter after decades of conceptual dominance.

Born in the Chinese Year of the Rabbit, the bunny series emerged from that personal identification — but the bunnies in Slonem's paintings are not decorative motifs. They are participants in a sustained investigation into what repetition does to meaning. Painting as meditation as much as image-making.
Questions

Who is Hunt Slonem?

Hunt Slonem (b. 1951, Kittery, Maine) is an American Neo-Expressionist painter known for his iconic serial paintings of bunnies, tropical birds, and butterflies. His work is held in over 250 permanent museum collections worldwide, including the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan, and the Whitney. He trained at Tulane University and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

What is a hutch painting?

The hutch series refers to Slonem's paintings of bunnies — often 50 to 100 figures — within a repeated compositional format that evokes the compartmentalized structure of a rabbit enclosure. No two hutch paintings are identical: grounds vary in color, figures shift in posture and density, and each work is a unique product of a specific day and state of attention.

What is a diamond dust painting, and why does it matter?

Diamond dust refers to finely ground glass — or, in some works, actual diamond particles — applied to a painting's surface to create a reflective, glittering effect that shifts with ambient light. Slonem uses it selectively to heighten the luminosity and spiritual intensity of specific works. Diamond dust pieces occupy a distinct and consistently sought tier within his market output.

Where can I see Hunt Slonem's work in Atlanta?

Hunt Slonem's work is on view at Carousel Fine Art, 3393 Peachtree Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30326, inside Lenox Square. Four large-scale works — Orange Bowl Hutch, Ruby-Red-Hutch-(Diamond-Dust), Bronze, and Morning Cloak — are on display through May 31, 2026. Admission is free.

Is Hunt Slonem's work in major museum collections?

Yes. Slonem's work is in the permanent collections of over 250 institutions worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Miro Foundation, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. This depth of institutional representation is among the strongest credentials of any actively collected American painter.